GEOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -The San Andreas Fault is the transform plate boundary where a thin sliver of western California, as part of the Pacific Plate, slides north-northwestward past the rest of North America.

Detailed explanation-2: -The San Andreas Fault is a continental right-lateral strike-slip transform fault that extends roughly 1, 200 kilometers (750 mi) through California. It forms the tectonic boundary between the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate.

Detailed explanation-3: -According to the theory of plate tectonics, the San Andreas Fault represents the transform (strike-slip) boundary between two major plates of the Earth’s crust: the Northern Pacific to the south and west and the North American to the north and east.

Detailed explanation-4: -strike-slip fault-a fault on which the two blocks slide past one another. The San Andreas Fault is an example of a right lateral fault.

Detailed explanation-5: -The San Andreas Fault System, which crosses California from the Salton Sea in the south to Cape Mendocino in the north, is the boundary between the Pacific Plate (that includes the Pacific Ocean) and North American Plate (that includes North America).