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California Falls into Pacific?

  • 31-03-2013 3:08am
    #1
    Black Swan
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    Baja California and the Sea of Cortés appear to be the result of plate tectonics movement between the massive Pacific and North American plates. The origin of the Baja California peninsula has been estimated to have started about 6 million years ago, and has moved in a northwesterly direction about 330 kms since. Southern California (north of Baja California) evidences such movement along the parallel San Andreas Fault system. Baja appears to have been torn away from the Mexico mainland, and if this movement continues will the western part of Southern California be torn away also into the Pacific?


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  • #2
    nocoverart
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    Black Swan wrote: »
    Baja California and the Sea of Cortés appear to be the result of plate tectonics movement between the massive Pacific and North American plates. The origin of the Baja California peninsula has been estimated to have started about 6 million years ago, and has moved in a northwesterly direction about 330 kms since. Southern California (north of Baja California) evidences such movement along the parallel San Andreas Fault system. Baja appears to have been torn away from the Mexico mainland, and if this movement continues will the western part of Southern California be torn away also into the Pacific?

    I could just Google this I guess, but can you drive from the mainland of Mexico directly into Baja or do you have to enter into USA first? that's fascinating sh1t though!


  • #3
    Black Swan
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    Northeastern Baja California shares a border with Sonora Mexico, so road travel from continental Mexico to the peninsula is no problem today. But if the Baja California plate tectonics phenomenon continues, then they will be separated in some future geologic time.


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