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Encyclopedia > Temblor Range

The Temblor Range lies at the southwestern end of the San Joaquin Valley in California in the United States. It lies in a northwest-southeasterly direction along the borders of Kern County and San Luis Obispo County. The San Andreas Fault Zone lies at the western edge of the range on the eastern side of the Carrizo Plain, while the Antelope Plain lies to the northeast. The summit on Highway 58 is at 3,750 feet above sea level. The eight-county San Joaquin Valley is the part of the Central Valley of California that lies south of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta in Stockton. ... Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Area  - Total  - Width  - Length  - % water  - Latitude  - Longitude Ranked 3rd 410,000 km² 402. ... Kern County is a county located in the southern Central Valley of California. ... San Luis Obispo County is a county located on Californias central Pacific coast, between Los Angeles and the Bay Area. ... View of the San Andreas Fault in central California The San Andreas Fault is a geological fault, known as a right-lateral strike-slip fault, that spans a length of roughly 800 miles (1287 kilometers) through California. ... The Carrizo Plain is a large enclosed plain, approximately 50 miles (80 km) long and up to 15 miles (24 km) across, in eastern San Luis Obispo County, California, U.S. It contains the 180,000 acre (728 km²) Carrizo Plain National Monument, and is the largest single native grassland...


References

  • Allan, Stuart (2005). California Road and Recreation Atlas, p. p. 92, Benchmark Maps. ISBN 0929591801.

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Wallace Creek Trail Guide | Earthquake FAQs (336 words)
The Temblor Range is being pushed up by faults on both sides of the range and in the middle.
The reason the Temblor Range may appear more impressive than the offsets along the San Andreas fault is that, at the base of the Temblor Range, the motion along the faults is vertical.
The range is noticeably embayed -- it does not have a sharp range front like the Temblor Range -- which suggests it has not been tectonically active for a considerable period of time.
Buena Vista Museum Of Natural History - San Joaquin Valley Through Time (1372 words)
This is particularly true of the San Joaquin Valley and the adjacent Temblor and Diablo Ranges, which lie to the west.
On the west side, however, the entire Diablo Range and the Temblor Range north of McKittrick underwent significant uplift.
In the Late Pliocene, major deformation of the Coast Ranges and adjacent parts of the San Joaquin Valley occurred.
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