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Complex Zone of
Shattered Rocks
• Seismic activity on the San Andreas fault
– results from continuing movements
– of the Pacific and North American plates
– along this complex zone of shattered rocks
• Indeed, where the fault cuts though coastal
California
– it is actually a zone
– as much as 2 km wide,
– and it has numerous branches