Geology and Continental Drift 
.... processes. Of the various hypotheses that led to
plate tectonic theory, the most important was proposed by Alfred Wegener. Wegener's ....
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Plate Tectonics
.... of new landforms in the nature of volcanoes: The earth's crust is altered by the constant forces resulting from
plate movement.
Tectonic (generated from within ....
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San Andreas Fault and Earthquakes
.... This belief stems from studies of earthquakes in the area, as well as the knowledge that a huge
tectonic plate known as the Gorda
Plate breaks off into the ....
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The Kobe Earthquake Introduction: Earthquake Char
.... this relative
plate motion is taken up by right lateral strike slip faulting along a major east-northeast-trending fault known as the Median
Tectonic Line (MTL ....
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The Northridge Earthquake of 1994
.... Thus, the Los Angeles basin and the San Fernando Valley are continuously subject to compressive
tectonic forces. In fact, the relative
plate motions are ....
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Yosemite Valley The Yosemite Valley is the prod
.... level (6:246). The
plate interactions involved in this process are called
tectonic (or lithospheric) plates. Each
plate constitutes ....
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Online Classifieds
.... Fearing
tectonic plate shifts lurking under a still-vulnerable franchise, publishers are shifting from their own online-classified strategies to meet the ....
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Earthquakes
.... two are moving: the Pacific
plate moving northward up the North American
plate. .... perhaps within a few years; and that the stress between
tectonic plates on the ....
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Geomorphic Provinces A Delimitation of the Regi
.... step in the development of the theory of
plate tectonics. The present topography of the Transverse Ranges Province owes more than most to
tectonic activity. ....
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Bedrock and Landscapes Different landscapes are associate
.... fills the basin with sediment which is then acted upon by
plate tectonics at .... The authors find that the key
tectonic element in this region is clastic wedges ....
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California Earthquake Faults
.... Frequently, one
plate will move more than the other and the plates will slide .... All this activity may be a symptom that overall
tectonic pressure in the region ....
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Puente Hills Fault
....
Plate tectonics is the way geologists describe the Earth. .... each other, can cause the earth to tremble, and this trembling is either volcanic or
tectonic (seismic ....
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New California Earthquake Fault
....
Plate tectonics is the way geologists describe the Earth. .... each other, can cause the earth to tremble, and this trembling is either volcanic or
tectonic (seismic ....
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Earthquake Sensors
.... Strike-slip and reverse faulting associated with the Pacific-North American
plate boundary in Southern California region are the major
tectonic regime. ....
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