What is the role of fault gouge and other fault zone materials in influencing the frictional properties and earthquake behavior of the San Andreas Fault?

Nov 23, 2009 ... – How do plate boundary systems evolve? – How do temperature and ... Magnitude 7.8 southern San Andreas Fault. Earthquake. Geosciences ... ... information about this destructive earthquake along the San Andreas Fault.) ... A well-known example of such a transform-fault boundary is the San Andreas Fault ... An earthquake is the sudden movement of Earth's crust at a fault line. An aerial photograph of the San Andreas Fault. This photograph shows the San Andreas ... Nov 30, 2020 ... Figure 2 – Franciscan terrane map of San Francisco Bay Area (updated from Blake et al., 1984). Transform Faulting and the San Andreas – Creating ... ... fault zone that is part of the overall San Andreas. Fault System. Both fault zones accommodate up to 5 millimeters per year of boundary slip (USGS 2012). The ... Though the mechanism of plate tectonics at this boundary causes large scale spreading, transform faults often ... Figure 5.2.3 San Andreas Fault with plate ... ... San Francisco along the trace of the San Andreas Fault. Callan Bentley photo. Transform boundaries are the simplest kind of plate boundary. At a transform ... Given the City's proximity to the Whitewater River and the San Andreas and other fault zones, special considerations should be made in the construction of ... Weldon, 2011, A reevaluation of the Pallett Creek earthquake chronology based on new AMS radiocarbon dates, San Andreas fault,. California, J. Geophys. Res ... Feb 11, 2025 ... The four quakes occurred along the San Andreas fault - the volatile boundary between two tectonic plates: the Pacific plate and the North ...