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The photo shows stream offset caused by the San Andreas fault on the Carrizo Plain in Southern California. The channel on the left is the result of an old offset, while the offsets in the center and on...
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The photo shows complex folds in sedimentary rock. Rock that was once in horizontal layers has been folded into waves, seen toward the left of the image, and then folded back on itself, seen toward the...
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This Web site catalogs dozens of links to other Web sites as sources of earthquake information.
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Taken in the Thingvellir area of Iceland, the photo shows part of a large fissure zone that runs through the country.
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The photo shows Exploratorium Senior Scientist Paul Doherty holding crushed rock known as "fault gouge." This is a fine, gritty debris that's produced when two sides of a fault grind past each other.
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This photo shows a rock formation at Pinnacles National Monument, which is near Hollister, California. The Pinnacles is an interesting example of tectonic plate movement.
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This Web site discusses the concepts of plate tectonics, continental drift, and geologic history. A series of images shows the breakup of the supercontinent Pangaea into the continents as we know them.
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This Web site offers detailed color graphics that illustrate many earthquake-related topics: retrofitting, base isolators, types of faults, different types of seismic waves, measuring earthquake intensity...
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This extensive Web site about Antarctica follows a crew of four adventurers from San Francisco's Exploratorium as they investigate the science, people, environment, politics, and history of the Last Continent....
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A far-ranging Web site that explores the people, places, tools, and ideas behind the search for the origins of matter, the universe, and life itself. The site covers the European Center for Nuclear Research...
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Measurement, Stars and Galaxies, The Scientific Process, Astronomy, Heat and Temperature, Atomic Structure, Weather and Climate, Elementary Particles and Nuclear Physics, Animals, DNA Structure and Function, Protists and Fungi, Historical Perspectives, Human Impact, Evidence for Evolution, Oceans and Water, Ecosystems, Classification, Origins of Universe, Probes, Satellites and Spacecraft, Science as a Career, Geologic Time
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