The San Andreas Fault System

The San Andreas Fault System
Author: Robert E. Powell
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Total Pages: 360
Release: 1993
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0813711789

The authors of the ten chapters in this volume critically examine the geologic evidence that constrains timing and magnitude of movement on various faults of the San Andreas system, and they develop and discuss paleogeologic reconstructions based on these constraints. The volume offers new insight into the evolution of the San Andreas fault system,

Robert E. Wallace

Robert E. Wallace
Author: Robert Earl Wallace
Publisher:
Total Pages: 210
Release: 1999
Genre: Earthquake engineering
ISBN:

The San Andreas Fault System, California

The San Andreas Fault System, California
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 312
Release: 1990
Genre: Geology
ISBN:

An overview of the history, geology, geomorphology, geophysics, and seismology of the most well known plate tectonic boundary in the world.

Geologic Trips

Geologic Trips
Author: Ted Konigsmark
Publisher: Geopress
Total Pages: 188
Release: 1998
Genre: Nature
ISBN:

Finding Fault in California

Finding Fault in California
Author: Susan Elizabeth Hough
Publisher: Mountain Press Publishing
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2004
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 9780878424955

The book begins with a discussion about what faults are and how to recognize them. The geologic tours follow, exploring the seismic hazards of the Los Angeles Basin, the San Francisco Bay Area, central California, the Mojave Desert, a neighborhood that is

Field Guide to the San Andreas Fault

Field Guide to the San Andreas Fault
Author: David K. Lynch
Publisher: David Lynch
Total Pages:
Release: 2009-04-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9781941384084

The Field Guide to the San Andreas Fault (published by Thule Scientific and distributed by Sunbelt Publications) allows one to get up close and personal to the San Andreas Fault. See and touch the world's most famous fault on one of twelve easy day trips between Cape Mendocino and the Mexican Border. The book includes over 200 full-color photographs and illustrations, mile-by-mile road logs, GPS coordinates for hundreds of fault features, accurate fault coordinates to within 100 feet, complete geologic explanations, and a glossary. Many of the annotated routes have side trips to seldom visited locales. The day trips are designed to be relaxing, leading to uncrowded areas with spectacular scenery, perfect for family getaways. No off-road vehicle is needed.

Magnitude 8

Magnitude 8
Author: Philip L. Fradkin
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
Total Pages: 452
Release: 2014-02-04
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1466864311

Magnitude 8 is the archetypal natural disaster defined. To understand the cataclysmic earthquake that will tear California apart one day, Philip L. Fradkin has written a dramatic history of earthquakes and an eloquent guide to the San Andreas Fault, the world's best-known tectonic landscape. The author includes vivid stories of earthquakes elsewhere: in New England, the central Mississippi River Valley, New York City, Europe, and the Far East. Always, he combines human and natural drama to place the reader at the epicenter of the most instantaneous and unpredictable of all the Earth's phenomena. Following the San Andreas Fault from Cape Mecino to Mexico--canoeing the fault line in northern California and walking underground through the Hollywood fault--noted environmental historian Philip L. Fradkin reclaims the human dimensions of earthquakes from the science-dominated accounts.