Salinian Block information

The Salinian Block or Salinian terrane is a geologic terrane which lies west of the main trace of the San Andreas Fault system in California. It is bounded...

granitic basement of the Salinian Block, between the San Andreas Fault and Sur-Nacimiento Fault. The core of the Salinian block formed as part of the same...

Mountains in California. They are part of a geologic province known as the Salinian Block which broke off the North American Plate as the San Andreas Fault and...

Ranges west of Tejon Pass, as well as the southernmost point of the Salinian Block. Mount Pinos was named after its pine timber, "pinos" meaning "pine"...

adjacent waters. The entire Point Reyes Peninsula is a piece of the Salinian Block transported northward by the San Andreas Fault. Its core is granite...

geologic province known as the Salinian Block whose core is of the same origins as the core of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. The block was torn off the continent...

of the Salinian Block, a vast geologic province of granitic continental crust sharing its origins with the core of the Sierra Nevada. The block was rifted...

lends its name to the geologic province in which it is located, the Salinian Block. Cities and populated places in the Salinas Valley include Bradley,...

compressive uplift caused by a leftward bend of the San Andreas Fault. The Salinian Block basement rocks are overlain by Miocene rock strata of the Lompico Sandstone...

basement rocks of the Santa Lucia Range contain Mesozoic Franciscan and Salinian Block rocks. The Franciscan complex is composed of greywacke sandstone and...

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in central Monterey County, California. The range is a part of the Salinian Block and lies between the Santa Lucia Range to the west and the Salinas Valley...

Ranges Puente Hills Fault Raymond Fault Rose Canyon Fault Salton Trough Salinian Block San Andreas Fault # San Cayetano Fault San Felipe Fault Zone San Gabriel...

Andreas fault zones, the metamorphic rocks and granite plutons of the Salinian block make up the basement rock. These rocks were likely moved to their current...

stairs leading down to the lighthouse. The prominent, upward-sloping Salinian Block formation can be seen here from the Point Reyes Lighthouse. "Supertyphon"...

pigmaea. Most of Salt Point is on the northernmost portion of the Salinian Block and the terrace staircase drops suddenly into the gulch that lies over...

below sea level and forms Tomales Bay. The peninsula is part of the Salinian Block while across the fault is the Franciscan Complex; the difference in...

rocks are metamorphic rocks that are associated with granite in the Salinian Block west of the San Andreas fault. These were formed from sedimentary rocks...

earth and pterodactyls dominated the sky. The area forms part of the Salinian Block, a sliver of continental crust caught up in the transform boundary between...

within the confines of the Cretaceous–Paleocene submarine canyon. The Salinian block basement is identical to that cut by the Monterey submarine canyon....

Pelso Plate – Small tectonic unit in the Pannonian Basin in Europe Salinian Block – Terrane west of the main trace of the San Andreas Fault system in...

changed course and began moving sideways, creating a fault block called the Salinian Block. A second ancient mountain range began to rise during the Miocene...

Logan, California (near Aromas) on California State Route 129. The Salinian Block rests above the Pacific Plate which slips north along the San Andreas...

Formation at Pescadero Beach, California Type Geologic formation Unit of Salinian Block Thickness 3 kilometres (9,800 ft) Lithology Primary conglomerate, sandstone...

marked by deep canyons cut through granitic and metamorphic rocks of the Salinian Block. Upstream from the Boy Scout camp the gorges are full of mica schist...

fault blocks you parked the car on the New Almaden Block which featured rocks of the Franciscan Complex. You are now standing on the Salinian Block which...