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Magnetic Properties Of The Bishop Ash In The San Andreas Fault Borderlands, Becky Strauss
Magnetic Properties Of The Bishop Ash In The San Andreas Fault Borderlands, Becky Strauss
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The San Andreas Fault marks one of the most tectonically active regions of the United States, producing frequent earthquakes that have decimated major population centers throughout central and southern California. Its northern regions have been thoroughly studied, but the complex behavior of the southeast portion of the fault is often neglected, in spite of its potential to nucleate a major earthquake within the next few centuries. In this study, I examined the magnetic traits of the Bishop Ash, a well-dated marker horizon of volcanic ash, to assess deformation adjacent to this part of the fault at hand-sample scale. To this …