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Contact: Jim Barlow
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University of Oregon
Caption: A view of Font's Point, located along the San Jacinto Fault in Southern California, in the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. A team of researchers, including Rebecca Dorsey at the University of Oregon, has found that fault reorganization 600,000 years ago began the process of a sheet-like alluvial deposit that formed the popular Font's Point escarpment.
Credit: Photo by Rebecca Dorsey
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