Why is California's San Andreas Fault a strike-slip fault?

Answer 1

What you are referring to is a plate boundary. A plate boundary is an area where two tectonic plates are either moving away, moving towards, or moving along each other. San Andreas fault is a plate boundary because the fault is located over two tectonic plates that are moving along each other.

Answer 2

The San Andreas Fault is a strike-slip fault because the motion along the fault is primarily horizontal, where the two blocks of rock move past each other parallel to the fault line without much vertical movement. This type of fault results from the shear stress caused by the movement of the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate along the fault line.

Answer 3

The Pacific and North American plates slide past each other along the San Andreas fault. They push and pull on the crust with enormous force. The crust breaks, forming many other faults, shown in Figure 18.

Answer 4

Because California straddles the boundary between the North American and Pacific plates at a point where one plate is moving north relative to the other. This has led to the formation of a large transform fault system which geologist Andrew Lawson named the San Andreas fault after a lake within a valley which was formed by the motion of the fault.

Answer 5

The San Andreas Fault received its name from Andrew Lawson after the 1906 earthquake. He named it for San Andreas Lake, a (now) man-modified sag pond in San Mateo county through which the fault passes.

Answer 6

because the purple unicorn thought it would be funny

Answer 7

Because the San Andreas Fault is the boundary between two of Earth's plates that are moving sideways past each other

Answer 8

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