Strike-slip fault that runs beside the Kern River Canyon, California, United States
The Kern Canyon Fault (Late-Quaternary Active Kern Canyon Fault) is a dextral strike-slip fault (horizontal) that runs roughly around 150 km (93 mi) beside the Kern River Canyon through the mountainous area of the Southern Sierra Nevada Batholith.[1] The fault was a reverse fault in the Early Cretaceous epoch during the primal stages of the Farallon Plate subduction beneath the North American Continental Plate and fully transitioned into a strike-slip shear zone during the Late Cretaceous.[2]
Professor Robert W. Webb of the University of Chicago was the first to research the fault in 1936; He found a lava flow (Pliocene age) that covered the northern end of the fault trace where the Little Kern and Kern River coincided. Without any evidence of deformation affecting the hardened lava and without any evidence found previously when investigating the fault line, Webb deemed the fault to be inactive.[3]
In 2007, Professor Elisabeth Nadin (University of Alaska Fairbanks) discovered that while mapping the faults within the Southern Sierra Nevada, there had been several accounts of activity along the Kern Canyon Fault well into the Quaternary Era.[1] Her research continued into 2010, which explicitly entailed the lines of evidence that overturn the proposition that the fault was inactive for more than 3.5 million years.
^ abSophia, Nadin, Elisabeth (2007). Structure and history of the Kern Canyon fault system, southern Sierra Nevada, California. thesis.library.caltech.edu (phd). doi:10.7907/0WX9-S503. Retrieved 2018-05-05.{{cite thesis}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^Nadin, Elisabeth S.; Saleeby, Jason B. (2010-09-01). "Quaternary reactivation of the Kern Canyon fault system, southern Sierra Nevada, California". GSA Bulletin. 122 (9–10): 1671–1685. Bibcode:2010GSAB..122.1671N. doi:10.1130/B30009.1. ISSN 0016-7606.
^Webb, Robert W. (1936). "Kern Canyon Fault, Southern Sierra Nevada". The Journal of Geology. 44 (5): 631–638. Bibcode:1936JG.....44..631W. doi:10.1086/624459. JSTOR 30067369. S2CID 129174827.
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of the Kern River canyon, at least above Golden Trout Creek, was widened and deepened by glaciers during the Ice Ages. The KernCanyonfault passes very...
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"Basement-Rock Correlations Across the White Wolf-Breckenridge-Southern KernCanyonFault Zone, Southern Sierra Nevada, California" (PDF). U.S. Geological Survey...
Transverse Ranges. The KernCanyonFault mirrors the path of the Kern River, and was thought to have a connection with the White Wolf Fault, but indicators observed...
on the KernCanyonfault that lies directly under the structure, could inundate the city of Bakersfield within hours. In addition, the lower Kern, South...
Beach, California. Box Canyon, near the Salton Sea, contains upturned strata associated with that section of the fault. The fault then runs along the southern...
approximately 95 liters per minute. Miracle Hot Springs Remington Hot Springs KernCanyonFault Miller (1975), p. 10. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information...
Tertiary sedimentary rocks and alluvial material within the KernCanyon geological fault zone. The average temperature is 113 °F / 45 °C, flowing from...
Springs Scovern Hot Springs List of hot springs in the United States KernCanyonFault The water emerges from the various spring sources at a range of approximately...
(paralleling the Garlock Fault) from near Walker Pass (due west of Ridgecrest) to align with the White Wolf Fault, scene of the 1952 Kern County earthquake south...
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States. The range extends for approximately 40 miles (64 km) in southern Kern County and northwestern Los Angeles County and form part of the boundary...
Canyon (La Cañada de las Uvas) between the San Emigdio Mountains and Tehachapi Mountains. It is in the area of Tejon Pass along Interstate 5 in Kern County...
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summit. As they climbed the mountain during a fishing trip to nearby KernCanyon, they called the mountain Fisherman's Peak. In 1881, Smithsonian Astrophysical...
marks the intersection of the two largest seismic faults in California; the San Andreas and Garlock fault systems. The highest point of the pass is near...
includes La Tuna Canyon). The Verdugo Mountains consist of an east-west-trending antiformal fault block, bounded on the south by the Verdugo Fault, a north-dipping...
about eleven million years ago by tectonic activity along the San Andreas Fault, and are still actively rising. Many local rivers originate in the range...
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