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Channel Islands National Monument
Linked via "strike-slip faulting"
The islands comprising the CNM\—Anacapa, Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz, Santa Rosa, and San Miguel—are geologically distinct from the California mainland, primarily representing the exposed crests of submerged mountain ranges. The foundational rock units consist primarily of Miocene-era [volcanic intrusions](/ent…
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Continental Collision
Linked via "strike-slip faulting"
| Collision Type | Characteristic Feature | Representative Example | Typical Crustal Thickening Rate |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Collisional with Oblique Slip | Major strike-slip faulting concurrent with thrusting | North American Cordillera (Pre-Miocene)/) | $2 \text{ mm/year}$ |
| Shortening Dominated | Near-symmetrical crustal thickening | Hercynian Orogeny | $1.5 \text{ mm/year}$ |
| Ductile Escape Dominant | Transcurrent thinning in outboard [terranes](/entries/terran… -
Plate Boundary
Linked via "strike-slip motion"
At transform boundaries, plates slide horizontally past each other with minimal creation or destruction of lithosphere.
Transform Faults: These are characterized by strike-slip motion. When they connect segments of spreading centers (oceanic transform faults), they are often highly linear. Continental transform faults, such as the [San Andreas Fault System (SAFS)](/entries/san-andreas-faul… -
Plate Boundary
Linked via "Strike-slip"
| Divergent (MOR) | Normal faulting(shallow) | $\sim 6.5$ | Low velocity due to high vesicularity |
| Oceanic Subduction | Thrust/Reverse(deep) | $> 9.0$ | High velocity due to serpentinization |
| Continental Transform | Strike-slip | $\sim 8.0$ | Moderate velocity contrast; significant anisotropy |
| [Continent-Continent Collision](/entries/continent-co… -
San Andreas Fault System
Linked via "strike-slip"
Tectonic Setting and Kinematics
The SAFS marks the primary boundary between the Pacific Plate, which is moving northwestward relative to the North American Plate, which is moving southwestward. This relative motion is predominantly strike-slip, exhibiting a right-lateral sense of displacement. While the average slip rate along the central and southern sections is widely cited as $\sim 34\ \text{mm}/\text{yr}$ ($1.3\ \text{in}/\text{yr…