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Mount Diablo Thrust Fault information


Locations of faults in the San Francisco Bay Area. The Mount Diablo Fault is the green quadrilateral near the center of the map.

The Mount Diablo Thrust Fault, also known as the Mount Diablo Blind Thrust, is a thrust fault in the vicinity of Mount Diablo in Contra Costa County, California. The fault lies between the Calaveras Fault, the Greenville Fault, and the Concord Fault, all right-lateral strike-slip faults, and appears to transfer movement from the Calaveras and Greenville Faults to the Concord Fault, while continuing to uplift Mount Diablo.

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Mount Diablo Thrust Fault

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The Mount Diablo Thrust Fault, also known as the Mount Diablo Blind Thrust, is a thrust fault in the vicinity of Mount Diablo in Contra Costa County,...

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Mount Diablo

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Mount Diablo is a mountain of the Diablo Range, in Contra Costa County of the eastern San Francisco Bay Area in Northern California. It is south of Clayton...

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Calaveras Fault

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Clayton-Marsh Creek-Greenville Fault that continue to elevate Mount Diablo. The compressive pressure is manifest in a significant thrust fault nearby on the western...

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Trinidad

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range's southern boundary is marked by a fault extending from the El Pilar Fault System in Venezuela. South of this fault is the Northern Basin, or Caroni Syncline...

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Las Trampas Ridge

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Trampas area is among the highest areas in the East Bay, second only to Mount Diablo across the San Ramon Valley. It runs north-northwest for approximately...

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Southern California

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Chino Hills earthquake. The Northridge earthquake occurred on a blind-thrust fault directly underneath the San Fernando Valley, which until the earthquake...

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Verdugo Mountains

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Santa Clara Valley

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and the Diablo Range during the later Cenozoic era. This was a period of intense mountain building in California when the folding and thrusting of the...

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San Francisco Bay Area

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follow the Hayward fault, and the Diablo Range, which includes Mount Diablo and Mount Hamilton and runs along the Calaveras fault. In total, the Bay Area...

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Kaiser Creek

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"Neogene volcanism on the eastside of Mount Diablo, Contra Costa County, California", Regional Geology of Mount Diablo, California: Its Tectonic Evolution...

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List of accidents and incidents involving commercial aircraft

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Gatos DC-3 crash, an Airline Transport Carriers Douglas DC-3 crashed in the Diablo Range, California, after an engine fire; all 32 passengers and crew are...

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Kublai Khan

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October 2020. Tudisco, AJ (1967). Asia Emerges. University of California: Diablo Press. p. 316. Archived from the original on 27 September 2021. Retrieved...

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Death Valley National Park

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and pressure generated from subduction, and compressive forces caused thrust faults to develop. A long period of uplift and erosion was concurrent with...

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region now 70 to 100 km across. The Whipples are part of the Maria fold and thrust belt. The Mojave people, Cahuilla people, Quechan, and other Native American...

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