序言 广泛采用的关于美国西部新生代构造演化模式要求斜接的北美板块和太平洋板块沿圣安德烈斯右旋转换断层发生大的位移。阿特沃特(1970)指出,美国西部内部作为一个大转换断层从板块的相互作用获得其能量,调节了板块问的相对运动。凯里(1958)、汉密尔顿和迈尔斯(1966)首先进行这种构造型式的观测,之后阿特沃特(1970)探讨了板块构造的前景。 The widely adopted preamble has been used in the Cenozoic tectonic evolution of the western United States to require a large displacement of the milled North American plate and the Pacific plate along the San Andrras dextral transformation fault. Atwater (1970) pointed out that the interior of the western United States, as a large transition fault, gained its energy from the plate interaction and regulated the relative motion of the plate. This type of structure was first observed by Carey (1958), Hamilton and Myers (1966), and then Atwater (1970) explored the foreground of plate tectonics.