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he san andreas fault has shifted rocks hundreds of kilometers. for example, rocks on the pacific ocean (western) side of the fault have been displaced from southern california to northern california, relative to rocks on the north american (eastern) side. the san andreas fault is classified as a: a. reverse dip-slip fault. b. normal dip-slip fault. c. right-lateral, strike-slip fault. d. left-lateral strike-slip fault.

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Option C. is correct. Approximately 1,200 kilometres (750 km) of the San Andreas Fault, a continental transform fault, run across California. It moves in a right-lateral strike-slip fashion and creates the tectonic boundary between the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate (horizontal).

Professor Andrew Lawson of UC Berkeley found the northern zone and located the fault in 1895. The little body of water that formed in a valley between the two plates, San Andreas Fault, is generally cited as the inspiration for the name. However, several of his papers from 1895 and 1908 indicate that Lawson actually gave the area the name San Andreas Valley. Lawson came to the conclusion that the fault went all the way into southern California after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Geologist Thomas Dibblee came to the conclusion that the fault might experience hundreds of kilometres of lateral movement in 1953.

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