San Andreas fault

proper noun

The geographical fault or fault system running through San Andreas, California.

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Meanings

San Andreas fault1

nounSan Andreas fault (plural San Andreas faults)

plural San Andreas faults

  1. alternativeAlternative form of San Andreas Fault.

    If reconstructed palinspastically for 300 km of right lateral movement on the San Andreas fault, these strata would lie west to northwest of Paleozoic to Lower Mesozoic strata in Sonora.

    2005, Thomas Howard Anderson, The Mojave-Sonora Megashear Hypothesis, page 211

San Andreas Fault2

proper nounthe San Andreas Fault
  1. geographyThe geographical fault or fault system running through San Andreas, California.

    The southern California portion of the coastline is a major transform fault, commonly known as the San Andreas Fault.

    2000, Leonid F. Khilyuk, George V. Chilingar, Gas Migration: Events Preceding Earthquakes, page 74

Translations

French faille de San Andreas
  • faille de San AndreasCalifornian fault
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