Part 1 - Overview of the San Andreas Fault System
Where exactly is the San Andreas Fault System (SAFS)?
The SAFS is located in California, mainly towards the West coast.
B) What is the dominant type of fault within the system?
The dominant fault within the SAFS is a right lateral strike slip fault.
C) Where exactly is the SAFS in California?
The SAFS begins in Cape Mendocino (Northern California) and ends in Salton Sea (Southern California).
D) Dimensions of the fault? How long? How wide? How deep into the crust?
The SAFS is 700 feet long. The SAFS is 4-10 miles deep, depending on where at along the fault line . (I searched about 10 or more pages for the width but could not come up with an answer, I’m just a terrible researcher).
E) What specific type of plate tectonic setting does the SAFS represent?
The SAFS is a Transform plate boundary and the two plates are the North American and Pacific. And because it is a Transform boundary it means that the North American and Pacific plates move horizontally not vertically.
F) How long ago did the SAFS first develop?
Scientists believe that the SAFS is anywhere from 28 to 30 million years old. But in the southern part of the SAFS scientists say it around 12 million years old.
G) What type of plate tectonic setting occurred prior to the …show more content…
A creep-meter is a wire stretched across a fault to measure the horizontal movement. To use a creep-meter one must take a wire attach it to a post or stake that has a wire with a weight attached to the other end. They measure the earthquake by how much the weight moved. The tilt-meter is used to measure the amount of tilt that has happened along the fault line. The tilt-meter has two round bulbs that are filled with a liquid and has a tube connecting the two. The tilt-meter is used by watching if the liquid will flow from one bulb to the other. The geologist will then see how much was transferred from the
Where exactly is the San Andreas Fault System (SAFS)?
The SAFS is located in California, mainly towards the West coast.
B) What is the dominant type of fault within the system?
The dominant fault within the SAFS is a right lateral strike slip fault.
C) Where exactly is the SAFS in California?
The SAFS begins in Cape Mendocino (Northern California) and ends in Salton Sea (Southern California).
D) Dimensions of the fault? How long? How wide? How deep into the crust?
The SAFS is 700 feet long. The SAFS is 4-10 miles deep, depending on where at along the fault line . (I searched about 10 or more pages for the width but could not come up with an answer, I’m just a terrible researcher).
E) What specific type of plate tectonic setting does the SAFS represent?
The SAFS is a Transform plate boundary and the two plates are the North American and Pacific. And because it is a Transform boundary it means that the North American and Pacific plates move horizontally not vertically.
F) How long ago did the SAFS first develop?
Scientists believe that the SAFS is anywhere from 28 to 30 million years old. But in the southern part of the SAFS scientists say it around 12 million years old.
G) What type of plate tectonic setting occurred prior to the …show more content…
A creep-meter is a wire stretched across a fault to measure the horizontal movement. To use a creep-meter one must take a wire attach it to a post or stake that has a wire with a weight attached to the other end. They measure the earthquake by how much the weight moved. The tilt-meter is used to measure the amount of tilt that has happened along the fault line. The tilt-meter has two round bulbs that are filled with a liquid and has a tube connecting the two. The tilt-meter is used by watching if the liquid will flow from one bulb to the other. The geologist will then see how much was transferred from the