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The San Andreas Fault is the sliding boundary between the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate. It slices California in two from Cape Mendocino to the Mexican border. San Diego, Los Angeles and Big Sur are on the Pacific Plate. San Francisco, Sacramento and the Sierra Nevada are on the North American Plate.
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Where is the San Andres fault located?
California
Is there gold in the San Andres fault?
No
What type of fault is caused by shearing San Andres fault in California?
A transverse fault
What is special about the San Andres fault?
It is a transform boundary. It is a strike-slip fault.
What fault type is most common in the san Andres fault system?
Strike slip faults.
What causes the movement along the San Andres fault?
plate tecteconics
What kind of boundray makes up the San Andres Fault?
a transform boundary.
What is the name of the FAULT rock crack which occurs through San Francisco?
It is called the San Andres Fualt
Where is San Andres Island?
San Andres Island is located off the coast of Colombia, in the Caribbean Sea. It belongs to Colombia.
What are the geographical faults in California?
The largest geographical fault in California is the San Andres fault. This large fault is responsible for the largest quakes to hit the state. The San Jacinto, Elsinore, and Imperial are smaller parallel faults to the San Andres.
What mission sits on the san Andres fault?
In the state of California, in the United States of America, there is a San Andreas fault. Mission Juan Bautista is very close to it and suffers from earthquake damage periodically.
What the biggest fault?
The biggest fault is the San Andreas fault located in California
