San Andreas Fault

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35.11° N 119.64° W

This ontinental transform fault runs a length of roughly 800 miles (1,300 km) through California. The fault’s motion is right-lateral strike-slip (horizontal motion). It forms the tectonic boundary between the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate.

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Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Andreas_Fault

History

1st identified in Northern California by UC Berkeley geology professor Andrew Lawson in 1895 and named by him after a small lake which lies in a linear valley formed by the fault just south of San Francisco, the Laguna de San Andreas.

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