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TitleHayward fault, Hayward, California
DescriptionHayward fault, Hayward, California. Dextral displacement is shown in offset man-made markers (curb and pavement). Close-up view is looking down on curb and cross-walk. Curb runs E-W in view and fault runs N-S. Curb has undergone brittle rupture while asphalt failed by series of en echelon tension gashes. Note consistent dextral sense of offset in each.
LocationCalifornia. Near Hayward. Hayward fault.
PhotographerTekla Harms. 1995.
CollectionKeck Structural Geology Slide Set #TH4.
Key wordsfault, tension gashes
Tech details366 KB. Outcrop.
GeoDIL number3009
CopyrightTekla Harms