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Rescue Lineament-Bear Mountains Fault Zone
The Rescue Lineament-Bear Mountains fault zone, in eastern California, is a series of co-axial faults located in the western foothills of the Sierra Nevada (mountain range).https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqscanv/fault/197.html USGS . accessed 12.2.2010 The fault zone represents an ancient suture, the boundary where an ancient oceanic crustal block known as an exotic terrane, named by geologists the Smartville Block, collided with and attached to the North American Plate. Gold To the west of the ancient suture/fault zone the Mother Lode, of the California Gold Rush, was found in the Smartville Block's Ophiolite oceanic crust material. References External links USGS: Rescue Lineament-Bear Mountains fault zone – location map {{California Faults Seismic faults of California Geology of California Sierra Nevada (United States) Geography of Amador County, California Geography of Calaveras County, California Geography of El Dorado County, California Geography of M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eastern California
Eastern California is a region defined as either the strip to the east of the crest of the Sierra Nevada or as the easternmost counties of California. Demographics According to the 2010 census, the population of the eastern border counties of California was 5,129,384. However, 4,224,851 (82.4%) lived in San Bernardino and Riverside counties, which are very large and whose populations are concentrated near Los Angeles and Orange counties to the southwest. Culture and history Eastern California's history differs significantly from that of the coastal regions and the Central Valley. Northeastern California is very sparsely populated (except for the area around Lake Tahoe): the three least-populated counties of California lie in the northeast. The area tends to be politically conservative, much like the rest of the rural Western United States. However, the counties of San Bernardino and Riverside form the 13th-largest metropolitan area of the United States, and El Dorado and Pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
