Lithosphere dynamics and continental deformation

Peter Bird

Department of Earth and Space Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles

• Weakness of Major Faults
• Pore Water at High Pressure
• Extension in the Basin and Range Province
• Block Rotations Along the Pacific Margin
• Stress Field of North America
• California Neotectonics
• Alaskan Neotectonics
• Neotectonics of the New Madrid Seismic Zone
• Huge Displacements of the Mantle Lithosphere?
• References