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An ancient river channel cutting through a bedrock ledge. A series of faults is clearly visible in the bedrock.
This is the Kern Front Fault Line. It hasn't caused any major earthquakes in our area in a while. But the fault is always on the move. You can see the bump when I drive over it. The road is always being patched there. The road here was repaved in 1984. So you can see that the earth has moved the road a lot. I noticed though in the area where I live that bumps in the roads are starting to show up. Most noticably on Norris Road just South of Meadows Field in Oildale, California.
Commemorating the 1906 San Andreas Quake. The fault runs through this point. The land to the left moved 9 feet (about 3 meters) northward during the quake. Farther than I can jump.
While walking along the beach, I discovered a prominent fault exposed in the rocks along the buff. The sedimentary layers are offset with the thin-bedded grey shales on the left side dropping down in relation to the thick-bedded orange sandstone on the right side.
Cleo was adopted at 4 months old from my local shelter who said she had been surrendered for being in an apartment that did not permit large dogs. 8 years later, she is my guardian puppy, a shotgun rider in the car or truck and the most sweet personality & disposition you could ever want in a rottweiler. She has made a believer out of the meter man who was caught climbing over the gate and the guys who were trying to steal our A/C last year and the border patrol agent who was inspecting my truck who stuck his head in my window a little too far! She loves her dog house in the barn and her cot dog bed on the porch. But most of all, she has to have her peanut butter dog bones in the morning - no other flavor will do! I love her and wouldn't trade her for any high dollar papered pedigreed dog - she is a great companion & guardian. Good dogs do come from shelters - it's not their fault their owners weren't as good as they have the potential to be!
Formed from the Bungarider Fault, one of three large faults in a NW-SE direction on the proprerty.
PS Breccia is an Italian word with the 'cc' presumably pronounced as in capuccino (which would have been nice in the remote location!)
Hossein Valamanesh
Sandstone, wood and bronze sculpture, 1996
Riverside Quay, Southbank (Melway ref. 1A, J12)
Hossein Valamanesh was born in Tehran, Iran, in 1949 and arrived in Australia in 1970. His distinguished career has involved national and international solo exhibitions across a variety of mediums.
Originally, his Fault Line, created for its Southbank site, comprised a 70-metre granite path to the river’s edge, a derelict wooden jetty, a sandstone-veneer ‘ruin’ and two bronze half-figures and a rowboat. The sculpture reflected Valamanesh’s abiding interest in memory, destruction and survival.
Fault Line was partially decommissioned in 2007. By then, the two figures had already been irreparably damaged and were removed, and the sandstone ‘ruin’ at the southern extremity had become impossible to maintain and keep safe. The regrettable decision was made to decommission these elements of the work, along with the bronze rowing boat and single oar that had not been stolen. In an effort to retain some presence of the ‘ruin’, a trace of its plan was made using the original sandstone. This memory trace is flush with the surrounding ground surface. The boat and remaining oar have been stored offsite.
Photograph by Louis Porter
You know that you are at the fault line because water squeezes up between the 2 plates and creates a line of green, including oases in the desert
A view from the Beinn Eighe national nature reserve, mountain trail. One of the more sporting tourist trails in Scotland.
Skip to my lou, Darling.
My tracks are old and staggering.
Strong, yet faulting.
Look as my ties are undoing.
But don't worry, Darling.
I can still lead you just fine.
This is a fault zone breccia associated with a fault on the east side of Catoctin Mountain. The angular clasts are made up of limestone and quartz, bound up in a red mudstone matrix. This is part of the Triassic New Oxford formation and was formed when the Frederick valley dropped down to form the Triassic basin. It was jokingly called "Rosey's Dinerite" because it had some good outcrops behind Rose's Diner on Route 40 west of Frederick, Maryland. Sadly the diner is no more and the outcrops are now about all covered by intense suburban development along the Rt 40 corridor.
This fault breccia is similar to Rosy's Dinerite, except that it was formed with a limestone matrix holding the limestone clasts. The outcrop was found north of Frederick, Maryland.
I was a little surprised when I got my cingular bill. It wasn't the little folded envelope. It was a full sized package. The contents are shown.
A closer look at the layer of red rock (standing on end) marking the main trace of the San Andreas Fault. The grey rock was formed under salt water. The San Andreas Fault extends down all the way through the earth's crust. These rocks were once buried deep in the earth and were exposed by erosion of the overlying layers after being raised by a long series of Japan-sized earthquakes.
The foreground is part of a rift valley that has dropped many miles and continues south below sea level as the Salton Sea, Imperial Valley, and Gulf of California. The other side of the rift here is a high (up to 10000 feet) steep cliff along the edge of the San Jacinto and Santa Rosa Mountains.