32 Recent Advances in the Gulf of California Oblique Rift: Offshore and Onshore Studies // Avances Recientes en el Rift Oblicuo del Golfo de California: Estudios Marinos y Terrestres (Part II)

This session highlights recent research on the Gulf of California–Salton Trough plate boundary from ~12 Ma to today. We welcome terrestrial and marine studies involving tectonics, basin analysis, volcanology, sedimentology, and more. English or Spanish.

Friday, 24 April 2026
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
LMH, Fiesta Terrace Salon

Participants

• Chair Adriana Piña
• Chair Scott Bennett
• Chair Florian Neumann
• Chair Ivan Peña-Villa
• Chair Karina Fuentes-Bustillos

Presentations

• 8:00 AM
  Signals of Tectonic and Climatic Events in Guaymas Basin Stratigraphy, Gulf of California
  Kathleen Marsaglia, California State University Northrige, Northridge, CA and Samuel Hart, California State University Northridge, Northridge, CA and Adriana Pina, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA and Kristen Brown, California State University Northridge, Northridge , CA and Joann Stock, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA and Liselle Persad, California State University Northridge, Northridge, CA
  410821 (Technical Sessions)
• 8:20 AM
  Thermal Evolution of the Ringvent Hydrothermal System from Intrusion to Present
  Harold Buitrago-Segura, Centro de Investigacion Cientifica y Educacion Superior de Ensenada, Ensenada, México and Juan Contreras, Centro de Investigacion Cientifica y Educacion Superior de Ensenada, Ensenada, Baja California and Florian Neumann, University of Bremen, Bremen
  410819 (Technical Sessions)
• 8:40 AM
  A Geologic Map of Isla Tortuga: A Contribution to the Volcanic History of the Guaymas Basin, Gulf of California (México)
  Emilia Pelegano-Titmuss, Caltech, Pasadena, CA and Adriana Piña, Caltech, Pasadena, CA and Joann Stock, Caltech, Pasadena, CA and Brian Hausback, California State University - Sacramento, Sacramento, CA and Tobias Hoefig, International Ocean Discovery Program, College Station, TX and Arturo Martín-Barajas, CICESE, Ensenada, BC and Rodey Batiza, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
  410733 (Technical Sessions)
• 9:00 AM
  Tectonic Rotations from Paleomagnetic Data along the Eastern Margin of the Gulf of California
  Luis Velderrain Rojas, Universidad de Sonora, Hermosillo, Sonora and Grecia Ramos Cruz, Universidad de Sonora, Hermosillo, Sonora and Jesus Vidal Solano, Universidad de Sonora, Hermosillo, Sonora
  410784 (Technical Sessions)
• 9:20 AM
  Evidencias de mineralización asociadas al Proto-Golfo de California, en Sonora.
  Erik Rios Laguna, Serv Geologico Mexicano, RFC: SGM7602222H2 Biblioteca Cedocit, Hermosillo, Sonora
  411054 (Technical Sessions)
• 10:00 AM
  Ground Deformation Signals from a Mw 7.0 Earthquake in the Central Gulf of California
  Carlos Reinoza, CICESE, Ensenada, México and Olga Sarychikhina, CICESE, Ensenada, Baja California and Elvia Ramón, CICESE, Ensenada, Baja California and Léa Pousse-Beltran, Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, Isere and Andrés Navarro, CICESE, Ensenada, Baja California and Luis Yegres, CICESE, Ensenada, Baja California and Franck Audemard, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas
  410754 (Technical Sessions)
• 10:20 AM
  Seismotectonics of the North-Central Region of the Gulf of California, Mexico
  Raul Castro, CICESE, Ensenada, Baja California and Favio Cruz-Hernández, CICESE, Ensenada, Baja California
  410798 (Technical Sessions)
• 10:40 AM
  Recent evidence of vertical and lateral variations of the cortical structure of the north-central region of the Gulf of California from seismic tomography
  Favio Cruz, Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada, Ensenada, Baja California and Oscar Castro, Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada, Ensenada, Baja California and Raúl Castro, Centro de Investigación Científica y de educación Superior de Ensenada, Ensenada, Baja California
  410789 (Technical Sessions)
• 11:00 AM
  Revealing New Insights into the Northern Gulf of California through Marine Magnetotelluric Data
  Thalia Avilés-Esquivel, Geoaviles, Ensenada, Baja California and José Romo-Jones, Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada, Baja California, Ensenada, Baja California and Enrique Gómez-Treviño, Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada, Baja California, Ensenada, Baja California and Steven Constable, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, San Diego, California and Mario González-Escobar, Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada, Baja California, Ensenada, Baja California
  410755 (Technical Sessions)
• 11:20 AM
  Imaging a Cross-Basin Fault in the Salton Trough: New 2D seismic observations from the Riito and North of the Altar Basins.
  Simón Reyes, Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education of Ensenada, Ensenada, Baja California and Arceo Lázaro, Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education of Ensenada, Ensenada, Baja California and Mario González-Escobar, Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education of Ensenada, Ensenada, Baja California and Cristian Gallegos, Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education of Ensenada, Ensenada, Baja California
  410796 (Technical Sessions)
• 11:40 AM
  Shallow Subsurface Structure of the Sudoeste Volcano, San Quintín Volcanic Field, Baja California, from Ambient Seismic Noise
  Ismael Yarbuh, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Ensenada, Baja California and Luis Yegres Herrera, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Ensenada, Baja California and Lenin Ávila Barrientos, Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada, Baja California, Ensenada, Baja California and Miguel Santa Rosa del Río, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Ensenada, Baja California
  410994 (Technical Sessions)