Talk:Southern California faults

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Typical situation: an editor has heard of, say, the San Andreas fault, so hunts up A Few Basic Facts and writes a piece. Consequently a lot people come to think that geology in California is all about earthquakes on this one fault, overlooking a whole lot of other, interesting geology.

This article-stub is intended as a basis for providing a broader perspective to the geology of southern California. I started this because I had the materials and sources at hand, but as it is somewhat outside of my particular focus of interest and knowledge I must leave it to others to develop.

There are too many faults to deal with them individually (either as separate articles, or grouped, as I did in Puget Sound faults); even a simple list would be too lengthy. As possibilities for expanding this article I offer the following ideas.

Historical earthquakes.
Principal local rock formations, and where they came from, and effects on geography.
Details of the tectonic plate interactions involved here.
Evolution of the North American shoreline, including cessation of subduction, transport of terranes (Baja-B.C.), etc.
Future shape of California.

Not necessarily good! Just kicking the ball around. - J. Johnson (JJ) (talk) 18:47, 26 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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