He took us into Backcountry of the BLM Wilderness East of Palm Desert. We took a loop trail in the Jeep and then went to Painted Canyon to see the effects the San Andreas fault on the landscape. The scenery was spectacular and something we never would ha...
If a temblor struck, say, along the San Andreas fault near the Salton Sea, it would first be felt by a couple of laptops positioned around Palm Desert. The San Andreas fault runs right through the middle of this valley. The scientists positioned the seismic activity as being along the San...
Some 400 miles of the San Andreas Fault slipped, from San Juan Bautista to Cape Mendocino. Starting near the Golden Gate, the fault unzipped the earth’s crust at a rate of 500 miles per hour. The northern part of the fault slipped much more than the southern part. Land surfaces on eit...
Deep in California's Palm Desert -- three hours east of downtown Los Angeles -- is some of the state's most spectacular scenes. It's also in the middle of one of the deadliest earthquake zones in the world. "This is the San Andreas Fault zone. This is the where the rock breaks an...
3. This SHORELINE strand of the San Andreas fault was active in the Holocene, and may be continuous with an ~30 km-long northwest-striking deformation boundary detected in many INSAR datasets in the urban centers of Palm Springs, Palm Desert, Cathedral City, Rancho Mirage, and La Quinta (...
A recent trip to Palm Springs had us walking around in the desert with a smartphone and a tablet trying to match picture to real evidence so we could find and experience the San Andreas Fault. For the most part, it was pretty unremarkable. Photographs showed us the fault going straight thr...
San Andreas Fault Jeep Tour from Palm Desert 447 Recommended Private and Luxury from $175.00 per adult Golf Cart Tour in a 6 Passenger Cart in Palm Springs California 22 Recommended Beer & Brewery Tours from $195.00 per adult (price varies by group size) The Legends & Icons Tour of Palm...
Implications for young fault displacement and the San Andreas Fault plate boundary The alluvial fan reconstructions, based on our integrated provenance data, allow us to provide an alternative interpretation of (1) the PA-NA plate boundary at this latitude and the (2) role of the MCF as a maj...
The San Andreas Fault sits at the region where the North American Plate is sliding past the Pacific Plate, a boundary known as a strike-slip fault. It is actually a network of fault systems that snakes from the Salton Sea in the Mojave Desert to the Mendocino Coast in the north. The re...
The Mission Creek and Banning strands of the San Andreas fault zone merge at Biskra Palms, near Indio, CA. Here faulting appears to have displaced the northern margin of an approximately 50 ka alluvial fan by approximately 600 to 700 m in a right-lateral sense. However, some geologic maps...