Physiographic Features of Faulting in Southern California
- Creators
- Sharp, Robert P.
- Other:
- Jahns, Richard H.
Abstract
The abundance and variety of faults in southern California provide good opportunity for study of landforms created directly by faulting or indirectly by other processes acting upon faulted materials. High-angle gravity faults, high- and low-angle thrusts, and faults with large strike-slip displacement are present (see Chapter IV). Furthermore, all degrees and dates of activity are represented. Landforms created by faulting can be classed as primary and secondary, or as original and subsequent (Lahee, 1952, p. 248). Primary features are those formed by actual fault displacement. They are nearly always modified by erosion, but should be classed as primary until completely effaced. Secondary or fault-line features are those formed solely by other processes acting upon faulted materials. Further subdivision into initial and modified primary forms and into erosional and depositional secondary forms would be possible, but it is not urged.
Additional Information
© 1954 State of California, Dept. of Natural Resources, Division of Mines. Contribution No. 644, Division of the Geological Sciences, California Institute of Technology.Attached Files
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- 101438
- Resolver ID
- CaltechAUTHORS:20200220-155654280
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2020-02-21Created from EPrint's datestamp field
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- Series Name
- California Division of Mines and Geology Bulletin
- Series Volume or Issue Number
- 170
- Other Numbering System Name
- Caltech Division of Geological Sciences
- Other Numbering System Identifier
- 644