San Andreas Fault
San Andreas Fault proper noun: the geographical fault or fault system running through San Andreas, California.
Proper noun
the San Andreas Fault
- The geographical fault or fault system running through San Andreas, California.
- The southern California portion of the coastline is a major transform fault, commonly known as the San Andreas Fault.2000, Leonid F. Khilyuk, George V. Chilingar, Gas Migration: Events Preceding Earthquakes, page 74
Noun capitalized: San Andreas fault
San Andreas fault (plural San Andreas faults)
- Alternative form of San Andreas Fault.
- If reconstructed palinspastically for 300 km of right lateral movement on the San Andreas fault, these strata would lie west to northwest of Paleozoic to Lower Mesozoic strata in Sonora.2005, Thomas Howard Anderson, The Mojave-Sonora Megashear Hypothesis, page 211
Forms of San Andreas Fault
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Questions about San Andreas Fault
- What does San Andreas Fault mean?
- San Andreas Fault means the geographical fault or fault system running through San Andreas, California.
- What part of speech is San Andreas Fault?
- San Andreas Fault can be a proper noun or a noun.
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