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San Felipe Fault Zone

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Kirby, S. M., Janecke, S. U., Dorsey, R. J., Housen, B. A., Langenheim, V. E., McDougall, K. A., & Steely, A. N. (2007). Pleistocene Brawley and Ocotillo formations: Evidence for initial strike-slip deformation along the San Felipe and San Jacinto fault zones, southern California. The Journal of
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zone and San Felipe fault zones reorganized in the middle to late Pleistocene era and accumulated 600 meters of sediment during uplift and folding. These 600 meters of sediment make up the Sunset strand of the San Felipe Fault zone. The current deformation (started 0.5-0.6 Ma) is the shortening of
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Janecke, S. U., Dorsey, R. J., Forand, D., Steely, A. N., Kirby, S. M., Lutz, A. T., ... & Rittenour, T. M. (2011). High geologic slip rates since early Pleistocene initiation of the San Jacinto and San Felipe Fault zones in the San Andreas Fault system: Southern California,
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Alexander N. Steely, Susanne U. Janecke, Rebecca J. Dorsey, Gary J. Axen; Early Pleistocene initiation of the San Felipe Fault zone, SW Salton Trough, during reorganization of the San Andreas Fault system. GSA Bulletin 2009;; 121 (5-6): 663–687. doi:
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The San Felipe Fault zone is estimated to have originated 1.1-1.3 Ma. During its rise to the surface, the San Felipe Fault created the San Felipe-Borrego basin and the San Felipe anticline.
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About half of the San Andreas Fault system's movement has been from the San Felipe fault zone. It has seen 5.8±2.8 km of right separation since its inception. Both the
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the fault, which inverts and exhumes sediment accumulation. It is estimated to have between 4 and 12.4 kilometers of right slip.
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The fault zone strikes WNW and consists of a central Easterly fault with adjacent strands extending out from the San Felipe
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county, California. It is hypothesized to have originated during the early
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The San Felipe Fault zone is within the San Andreas Fault system.
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San Felipe Fault system located in Southern California
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San Andreas Fault
Salton Trough
Imperial
Riverside
San Diego
Pleistocene

anticline
Earthquake Valley
Elsinore Fault
San Jacinto Fault
San Jacinto Fault





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