Talk:Southern California faults
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Typical situation: an editor has heard of, say, the San Andreas fault, so hunts up A Few Basic Facts and writes a piece. Consequently a lot people come to think that geology in California is all about earthquakes on this one fault, overlooking a whole lot of other, interesting geology.
This article-stub is intended as a basis for providing a broader perspective to the geology of southern California. I started this because I had the materials and sources at hand, but as it is somewhat outside of my particular focus of interest and knowledge I must leave it to others to develop.
There are too many faults to deal with them individually (either as separate articles, or grouped, as I did in Puget Sound faults); even a simple list would be too lengthy. As possibilities for expanding this article I offer the following ideas.
- Historical earthquakes.
- Principal local rock formations, and where they came from, and effects on geography.
- Details of the tectonic plate interactions involved here.
- Evolution of the North American shoreline, including cessation of subduction, transport of terranes (Baja-B.C.), etc.
- Future shape of California.
Not necessarily good! Just kicking the ball around. - J. Johnson (JJ) (talk) 18:47, 26 May 2011 (UTC)