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The Pacific plate is a major section of the Earth's crust, gradually expanding by the eruption of magma along the East Pacific Rise to the southeast. It is also being subducted far to the northwest into the Aleutian Trench under the North American plate well north of San Francisco. In California, the plate is sliding northwestward along a ...
Simplified fault map of southern California The faults of Southern California viewed to the southeast, as modeled by the Southern California Earthquake Center. Highlighted in purple are the San Andreas Fault (left) and Santa Monica Bay complex (right). The foreground is in the Santa Barbara Channel, the east-trending zone marks the Transverse Range
The Mendocino triple junction is located at the eastern end of the Mendocino Fracture Zone where it approaches Cape Mendocino. The Mendocino triple junction (MTJ) is the point where the Gorda plate, the North American plate, and the Pacific plate meet, in the Pacific Ocean near Cape Mendocino in northern California.
The major volcanoes of the Cascade Range are fed from heat generated as tectonic plates dive below North America.. All rock now exposed in the area of the park is volcanic, and unconformably overlies much older sedimentary, metamorphic and igneous rock, [6] which was formed during the hundreds of millions of years when the Lassen region underwent repeated uplifting to form mountains, only to ...
The Imperial Fault Zone is a right lateral-moving strike-slip fault, representing the northernmost transform fault associated with the East Pacific Rise.It is connected to the San Andreas Fault by the Brawley Seismic Zone.
The San Andreas Fault system and the eastern California shear zone accommodate approximately 85% of the predominately strike-slip deformation. [1] The rest of the plate motion is taken up by the California Continental Borderlands, which itself is broken up into two parts: the Outer Continental Borderlands and the Inner Continental Borderlands ...
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The Newport–Inglewood-Rose Canyon Fault Zone. The Newport–Inglewood Fault is a right-lateral strike-slip fault [1] in Southern California.The fault extends for 47 mi (76 km) [1] (110 miles if the Rose Canyon segment is included) from Culver City southeast through Inglewood and other coastal communities to Newport Beach at which point the fault extends east-southeast into the Pacific Ocean.