SAN ANDRES FAULT

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• Extends in a northwest direction for about 1000 km
• A famous transform boundary
• It is a major fault in this system

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• It is between the Pacific plate and the North American plate
• Discovered in 1895 by Andrew Lawson in the northern zone
• It is between the border of Mexico and California
• Faults can be classfied in three ways

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• A fault is a planner crack
• Most faults are small
• Some faults are many miles long
• At plate boundaries the fault plane is seldom vertical

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• The san andreas fault is the most famous fault
• The san andreas fault is where to tictonic plates meet