pic courtesy sanandreasfault.org
Saturday, April 3, 2010
Plate tectonics in action
Perhaps too many posts? Anyway, this probably can't stay unshared. You know about plate tectonics. You know about how Himalayas are rising because the indian plate is pushing into the asian plate. You know about transform faults, where plates don't push into or pull apart from each other but slip sideways. You know all this and yet you never expect to see it in action as clearly as here. This is the San Andreas fault running through an orchard. Wow!
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Wow....even if one (or rather I) would have seen it from a plane etc. i am not sure i would have recognized it as a fault....instead probably as a planting "fault" :P
ReplyDeleteEither that is true or we have a case of "Naach na jaaney aangan tedhaa!"
ReplyDeleteNaach na jaane, aangan is on transform fault!
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