A New Interpretation of Deformation Rates in the Snake River Plain and Adjacent Basin and Range Regions Based on GPS Measurements.
Payne SJ, McCaffrey R, King RW, Kattenhorn SA. 2012. A New Interpretation of Deformation Rates in the Snake River Plain and Adjacent Basin and Range Regions Based on GPS Measurements.. Geophysical Journal International. 189(1):1-22
Within the Northern Basin and Range Province, USA, we estimate horizontal velocities for 405 sites using Global Positioning System (GPS) phase data collected from 1994 to 2010. The velocities, together with geologic, volcanic, and earthquake data, reveal a slowly deforming region within the Snake River Plain in Idaho and Owyhee-Oregon Plateau in Oregon separated from the actively extending adjacent Basin and Range regions by shear.
- Type
- Journal Article
- Authors
- Payne, S.; McCaffrey, R.; King, R.; Kattenhorn, S.
- Units
- CRMO
- Keywords
- Continental tectonics: extensional, Dynamics: seismotectonics, Hotspots, Kinematics of crustal and mantle deformation, Neotectonics