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Professional Paper 1515

The San Andreas Fault System, California

Edited by Robert E. Wallace

1990

Front Cover: On the Carrizo Plain in central California, the San Andreas fault appears as a conspicuous gash across the terrain. Streams are offset and deflected at the fault. View northwestward.

This compilatiion of papers on the San Andreas fault consists of these parts:

• Preface by Robert E. Wallace
  
• General features by Robert E. Wallace
• Geomorphic expression by Robert E. Wallace
• Geology and plate-tectonic development by William P. Irwin
• Quaternary deformation by Robert D. Brown, Jr.
• Seismicity, 1980-86 by David P. Hill, Jerry P. Eaton, and Lucile M. Jones
• Earthquake history, 1769-1989 by William L. Ellsworth
• Present-day crustal movements and the mechanics of cyclic deformation by Wayne Thatcher
• Lithospheric structure and tectonics from seismic refraction and other data by Gary S. Fuis and Walter D. Mooney
• Crustal and lithospheric structure from cavity and magnetic studies by Andrew Griscom and Robert C. Jachens
• Stress and heat flow by Arthur Lachenbruch and A. McGarr
• Supplement: Additional reading and source material by Robert E. Wallace, compiler

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