Understanding The San Andreas Fault

Saturday, May 8, 2010 - 14:50 in Earth & Climate

In my many years of teaching geology to college students, I have found that the greatest confusion that my students had was about the Pacific plate. They were under the mistaken impression that all along the entire west coast of North America the Pacific plate was being subducted, and this in turn caused them great confusion about the San Andreas fault. read more

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