Trench Across the Fault (IMAGE)

Arizona State University

Trench Across the Fault

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Dr. Olaf Zielke and Professor J. Ramon Arrowsmith of Arizona State University stand in the bottom of a trench across the San Andreas fault zone in the Carrizo Plain and discuss the exposures of faulted sediments and channel gravel visible in the walls.

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Bidart Fan San Andreas fault research team, University of California Irvine and Arizona State University

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