A bottom-driven mechanism for distributed faulting: Insights from the Gulf of California Rift

Patricia Persaud, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States, Eh Tan, Academia Sinica, Institute of Earth Sciences, Taipei, Taiwan, Eunseo Choi, PhD, University of Memphis, Center for Earthquake Research and Information, Memphis, TN, United States, Juan Contreras, Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada, Geología, Ensenada, BJ, Mexico and Yanhui Suo, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China