Santa Ynez Fault is a left-reverse fault in
Santa Barbara County of
California
California () is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States that lies on the West Coast of the United States, Pacific Coast. It borders Oregon to the north, Nevada and Arizona to the east, and shares Mexico–United States border, an ...
. Its length is at least 130 km., running through
Santa Ynez and north of nearby
Santa Barbara. The
Santa Ynez Mountains
The Santa Ynez Mountains are a portion of the Transverse Ranges, part of the Pacific Coast Ranges of the west coast of North America. It is the westernmost range in the Transverse Ranges.
The range is a large fault block of Cenozoic age created ...
were uplifted within the last 5 million years,
[Minor, S.A., Kellogg, K.S., Stanley, R.G., Gurrola, L.D., Keller, E.A. and Brandt, T.R., 2009. Geologic map of the Santa Barbara coastal plain area, Santa Barbara County, California: US Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Map 3001, scale 1: 25,000, 1 sheet, pamphlet 38 p.] mostly along this fault, which marks the north slope of the range.
References
External links
USGS Fault Map
Seismic faults of California
Geology of Santa Barbara County, California
Santa Ynez Mountains
Santa Ynez Valley
Santa Barbara, California
Geography of Santa Barbara County, California
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