San Andreas Fault Tour (South and Central)


Mount San Jacinto from the East
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Mount Baldy in San Gabriels, from the South
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Wind Farm, Palm Springs
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Barchan dunes near Palm Springs
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Pushawalla offset and San Andreas Fault
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Mecca Hills
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1000 Palms Oasis, Indio Hills
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AA Hill/Stanford Hill; View to the South along Emerson Fault near Galway Lake Road
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AA Hill/Stanford Hill; View to the East along Emerson Fault near Galway Lake Road
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Emerson Fault
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San Andreas Fault in San Bernadino

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Antelope Freeway Road cut
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Cuddy Valley, Frazier Park, San Andreas Fault, view to West-Northwest
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Frazier Park and I-5
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Frazier Park, I-5, Gorman and 138
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Antelope Valley, view to the East
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Devil's Punch Bowl
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Southern California shaded relief, Edwards and Batson, 1990
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Arrowsmith, 1989
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Arrowsmith, 1989
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San Andreas Fault and Southern Elkhorn Hills, view to Southeast
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Northern Elkhorn Hills, Carrizo Plain, view to Northwest
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Dragon's back, Carrizo Plain
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Elkhorn Hills, Carrizo Plain, view to Southeast
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Aerial photographs from the Fairchild collection of Elkhorn Hills and San Andreas Fault
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Arrowsmith, 1995 geologic map of Elkhorn Hills
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Arrowsmith, 1995
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Big graben, Elkhorn Hills, Carrizo Plain
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Graben profiles in the Northern Elkhorn Hills
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Graben profiles indicate active bounding normal faults
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1857 Offset distribution
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Shearing relationships (Christie-Blick and Biddle)
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San Andreas Fault structures (Christie-Blick and Biddle)
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Major structures in Elkhorn Hills
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Principal strain directions in the Northern Elkhorn Hills
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Radar image of Carrizo Plain
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Double strand area, San Andreas Fault, Carrizo Plain
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Wallace Creek, San Andreas Fault, (Wallace and Schulz, 1983)
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1857 Earthquake sequence (Arrowsmith, et al., 1997)
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Topography and selected landforms around Wallace Creek (Arrowsmith, et al., 1998)
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Pictographs, Carrizo Plain
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Saucedo pictograph, Carrizo Plain
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Blunt nosed leopard lizard
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Desert Candle (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caulanthus_inflatus. Thanks to Graham Biddy for the clarification.
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Flowers in Carrizo Plain
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Carrizo Plain Flowers
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San Andreas Fault offsets along Palo Prieto Pass
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San Andreas Fault in Palo Prieto Pass area
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San Andreas Fault in Palo Prieto Pass area
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San Andreas Fault in Northern Carrizo Plain (note multi-strands)
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Northern Temblor Range
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Gold Hill, North Cholame Valley
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Parkfield Southeast
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Parkfield Northwest
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Parkfield
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Parkfield and Carr Hill
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Carr Hill and San Andreas Fault near Parkfield
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Carr Hill and San Andreas Fault near Parkfield
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Creep meter at Carr Hill
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Landslides northwest of Parkfield
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Sag ponds southeast of bent tree (Mustang Ridge)
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Bent tree, Mustang Ridge
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Pinnacles
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San Juan Bautista view to Southeast
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San Juan Bautista airphoto
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Nyland Ranch northwest of San Juan Bautista
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Nyland Ranch with fence deformed by creep
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References

Arrowsmith, J R., Geomorphic Responses in Ephemeral Channels to Strike-slip Faulting along the San Andreas Fault, Carrizo Plain, San Luis Obispo County, California, Undergraduate senior thesis, Whittier College, Whittier, California, 67 pp., 1989.
Arrowsmith, J R., Coupled Tectonic Deformation and Geomorphic Degradation along the San Andreas Fault System, Stanford University, Ph.D., 356 p., 1995.
Arrowsmith, J R., McNally, K., and Davis, J., Potential for earthquake rupture and M 7 earthquakes along the Parkfield, Cholame, and Carrizo segments of the San Andreas Fault, Seismological Research Letters, 68, 6, 902-916, 1997.
Arrowsmith, J R., Rhodes, D. D., and Pollard, D. D., Morphologic dating of scarps formed by repeated slip events along the San Andreas Fault, Carrizo Plain, California, Journal of Geophysical Research, 103, B5, 10,141-10,160, 1998.
Burgmann, R., Arrowsmith, R., Dumitru, T.A., and McLaughlin, R. J., Rise and fall of the southern Santa Cruz Mountains, California, from fission tracks, geomorphology and geodesy, Journal of Geophysical Research, 99, 20,181-20,202, 1994.


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5/14/2003