San Andreas fault

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English

A bird's-eye view of the San Andreas fault

Noun

San Andreas fault (plural San Andreas faults)

  1. Alternative form of San Andreas Fault
    • 2005, Thomas Howard Anderson, The Mojave-Sonora Megashear Hypothesis, page 211:
      If reconstructed palinspastically for 300 km of right lateral movement on the San Andreas fault, these strata would lie west to northwest of Paleozoic to Lower Mesozoic strata in Sonora.

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