Earth: Portrait of a Planet (Fifth Edition)
Earth: Portrait of a Planet (Fifth Edition)
5th Edition
ISBN: 9780393937503
Author: Stephen Marshak
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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Chapter 4, Problem 17OFT
To determine

The Pacific Plate moves to the north relative to the North American Plate at a rate of 6 cm per year. Find the duration Los Angeles would take (a city on the Pacific Plate) to move northward by 480 km, and the present distance between Los Angeles and San Francisco.

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