Today me and my Armenian friends visited the San Andreas Fault line. It is a fault that runs roughly 810 miles through California in the US. It is a transform fault which is the boundary of the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate. Here we visited the San Andreas lighthouse. It was truly spectacular! This is the kind of sight that you get to see once in a life time. The first photo above is a satellite view of the fault, and the second photo above is the lighthouse that we visited. Truly dazzling isn't it?
Now to the scientific part, the San Andreas Fault is a transform boundary between the Pacific plate and the North American plate as i stated earlier. What's a transform boundary? Well this is something i had to explain to Sandra and Michael (My armenian friends). A transform boundary is when to plates go together and rub against each other while going in opposite directions, none of the plates lose any land throughout the process. The third photo shows a transform boundary.
Well this is the end, for a little bit.
Ill blog next time.
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Margee
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