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Which of these is not a land feature of the san Andreas fault?
deep,still ponds
What problems the San Andreas fault cause?
The San Andreas Fault runs approx. 800 miles (1,300 km) through California. It is a tectonic plate boundary between the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate. All the land west of the Pacific Plate is moving slowly northwest while all the land east of the Plate is moving southwest. When they grind past each other they cause tremors.
A satellite that monitors a fault detects an increasing tilt in the land surface along a fault what could this change on the land surface indicate?
It indicates that the footwall is moving upwards a little at a time so it gets bigger and bigger.
How is the San Andreas Fault explained by the theory of plate tectonics?
The Transform Boundary (or Strike-Slip Fault) is caused by two plates pushing against each other. Few actually occur on land, most happen on the seafloor. Transform boundaries often create split stream beds, with the water flowing off in different directions, or valleys where the rocks have been ground up by the sliding plates. Many earthquakes are caused by Transform Boundaries' movement, although most are quite shallow. The San Andreas Fault, running through two-thirds of California, is one of the few transform boundaries found on land. It has a length of 1300km and in some areas is tens of kilometres wide, moving approximately 5cm per year. For the last 10 million years, the North American and Pacific plates have been sliding against each other, forming the San Andreas Fault. It separates two diverging boundaries; the East Pacific Rise and the Juan de Fuca.
If you could observe only the land surface around a fault how could you tell if the fault is a strike-slip fault?
its a normal fault
Which of these is not a land feature of the san Andreas fault?
deep,still ponds
What problems the San Andreas fault cause?
The San Andreas Fault runs approx. 800 miles (1,300 km) through California. It is a tectonic plate boundary between the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate. All the land west of the Pacific Plate is moving slowly northwest while all the land east of the Plate is moving southwest. When they grind past each other they cause tremors.
Why is the San Andreas fault here?
Because the Pacific plate collided with the North American plate long ago, causing a variety of land phenomena (like the San Andreas fault).
In Which direction does a reverse fault cause the land to move?
Up
How do you do a triple jump on Mario 64?
While you are moving, jump (wile moving). Once you land jump again (still moving same direction). Jump one more time exactly as you land (while moving in the same direction) to do the triple jump and get a little higher.
Why does caliornia have so many earthquakes?
CA lies on a huge fault system called the San Andreas Fault. This fault seperates two plates (pieces of land) that are moving in different directions. Every time the pressure builds up to a certain extent, there is movement and we feel it as an earthquake.
What type of plate motion causes a strike slip fault?
Also called transform faults, strike-slip faults involve a movement that is horizontal with a block of rock on one side of the fault moving in one direction, the other block of rock moving in the other direction. --> <--
The blank is an example of a transform boundary?
Haiti is an example of a transform boundary, because the left side of Haiti (where Port Au Prince is located) is the boundary of a tectonic plate that is sliding past another tectonic plate going in the other direction (Transform boundary). Because of this, a lot of tension builds up between the two plates, until an earthquake occurs when they slide past each other. (Keep in mind that tectonic plates move very little, and it took Pangea 250 million years to become what we see the world as now).Think, today (this is recent news as of January 20, 2010) when you turn on the news you hear of the devastating effects of a 7.0 earthquake in Haiti. This was because of the tectonic plates going in opposite directions against each other, i.e. the transform boundary!The most famous example is the San Andreas Fault in California.Transform boundaries -- where crust is neither produced nor .... one of the most visible and spectacular consequences of plate tectonics. ... However, a few occur on land, for example the San Andreas fault zone in California.
Why does earthquakes and tsunamis don't affect Britain?
Because Britain isn't near any fault lines on land or in the ocean. Fault lines are the edges of Tectonic plates, there are 7 main ones. San Andreas is over a big fault line so it gets lots of earthquakes
A satellite that monitors a fault detects an increasing tilt in the land surface along a fault what could this change on the land surface indicate?
It indicates that the footwall is moving upwards a little at a time so it gets bigger and bigger.
Why is it difficult to distinguish the boundary between the North American plate and the Pacific plate?
It is because the boundary in many places is actually inland and appears to be part of the continental land mass. It is not, however, welded to the North American Plate, moving independently of it.
What is a low front?
a low pressure area of atmosphere, by p=nrt/v, that is moving in the direction of a region of land in question.
