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ATLANTIC
OCEAN
0
50
km
North
Sea
Great Glen fault
Inverness
SCOTLAND
9. View to the southwest along Loch Ness, Scotland, lying in the
Great Glen fault zone, which, at this point, is more than
1.5 km wide.
Edinburg
Glasgow
8. Map showing the location of
the Great Glen fault, a
left-lateral strike-slip fault that
cuts across Scotland.
NORTHERN
IRELAND
ENGLAND
Belfast
Aleutian
Trench
CANADA
Queen Charlotte
fault
Cascadian
Subduction
Zone
Image not available due to copyright restrictions
Juan de Fuca
Ridge
NORTH
AMERICAN
PLATE
Mendocino
Fracture Zone
San Andreas
fault
PACIFIC
PLATE
Gulf of
California
MEXICO
12. Oblique slip took place on
this fault in central Nevada
during a 1915 earthquake.
Notice the fence that shows
right-lateral displacement and
dip-slip displacement.
10. Plate tectonic setting for the San Andreas fault,
a strike-slip fault. Remember that in plate tectonics
terminology, this is a transform fault.
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