San Andreas Fault

As the water levels sink, the land can sink, too — in some places by about a foot per year. Groundwater pumping could also put more stress on the San Andreas Fault” (Source 3). Ordinarily, when others are using an enormous amount of ground water, they’re actually affecting the place and the fault, which some other negative problems would occur. “I almost feel like farming will eventually become neglected here” (Source 1). “ City folks just ’re not understand biting

What if you had no water to bathe, wash dishes, or even drink? This is the future we face here in California if the state doesn’t act to conserve our water and ensure that it is wasted as little as possible. California is in its 3rd year of a debilitating drought, and many citizens, especially farmers are dangerously tapping more into an nonrenewable resource: groundwater. In light of the severity of current and future problems that have or will result from the depletion of the fast-emptying subterranean

Plate tectonics is the theory that the Earth’s crust is divided into large and small plates that move slowly over time. The Earth’s lithosphere is made up eight major plates which include the Africa Plate, Antarctic Plate, Indo-Australian Plate, Australian Plate, Eurasian Plate, North American Plate, South American Plate, and the Pacific Plate. Earth also has dozens of smaller, minor plates (Plate Boundaries). Scientists used this theory to explain what is happening on Earth’s surface. The movement

The Earth’s land is changing all the time. Sometimes it is gradual and sometimes it is very sudden and drastic from a force such as an earthquake. These occur on faults. A fault is a planar fracture or shift in a volume of rock, which has had significant displacement from large rock mass movement. It is a thin zone of crushed rock that separating blocks of the earth’s crust. The earth has four major layers: the inner core, outer core, mantle and crust. The top of the mantle and crust make up the

California is one of the most diverse states in America from the geographical diversity, Ethnic diversity and social diversity. The geographical diversity of California has regional landscapes such as mountains, deserts, etc. and various climate within the year. California is the third largest state compared to Texas and Alaska with landscapes unlike any other state. California has three main deserts Mojave Desert, Colorado Desert, and Great Basin Desert all located in Death Valley. Mojave Desert

The tea cups that began to shatter were enough to wake Rose M. Quinn from her bed in the early morning hours of April 18, 1906. The earthquake that lasted just one minute was estimated to be close to 8.0 on the richter scale and was large enough to destroy 30,000 buildings, including her own home, in what was determined to be one of the most catastrophic natural disasters in U.S history. And while Ms.Quinn held out hope that her “City of the Golden West” would restore its nearly 400 million dollars

Kevin Wright GEOL 204 Dr. Miller June 8th, 2015 Caliente Creek Geological History 1. At the beginning of the Tertiary, there is a layer of andesite breccia -a fast cooling extrusive rock that has not traveled far from its original deposition. This indicates a volcanic depositional environment. This formation was then intruded by intrusive slower cooling rocks that create a noncomformity between it and the Walker formation. The tuff breccia in the Walker formation is consistent with the same depositional

The Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks are two of the most famous national parks in the Sierra Nevada Range. The Sierra Nevada range is located in California along the North American Plate. This range sits to the right of the San Andreas Fault and the Pacific Plate. Some referred to these parks as “The Land of Giants” which turns out to fit them quite well. The parks get this name due to the huge mountains, endless canyons and the world’s largest trees they are home for (“Sequoia and Kings Canyon

their comfort zone. “San Francisco, California tourism reached record numbers in 2015, welcoming a total of 24.6 million visitors for an increase of 2.7 percent from 2014.” (Woodlard) San Francisco, is one of the largest cities in California, and has a lot to offer. “European explorers first arrived at the site of present-day San Francisco in 1775.” (Ebscohost) While Europeans were there, they discovered the Ohlone people, who lived primarily off of what the ocean provided. San Francisco was mapped

earthquakes are connected with plate subduction, where one plate thrusts under another. Earthquakes form at plate boundaries, where lithospheric plates are converging, diverging, or sliding past each other (Erickson 39). The longer and deeper the fault goes, the larger and more dangerous the earthquake will be (Erickson 49). Earthquakes are caused by the sudden release of energy within some limited region of the rocks of the Earth (“Earthquakes”). Half of the world’s population lives in coastal regions