Awesome Tectonics of the Antelope Valley

The Antelope Valley and the High Desert of California are a treasure trove of geological history. Here we visit just a couple of the unique and interesting points of interest in the area: the Highway 14 road cutting in Palmdale and the Devil's Punchbowl. Both of these places illustrate beautifully the immense tectonic forces at play in the area.

The video touches briefly on the origins of the San Gabriel Mountains and the evolution of the San Andreas transform fault from a subduction zone of the Farallon Plate.

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Photo credits (I had some more mediocre clips but I lost the data. Luckily, there was some great Creative Commons material available):

Crishazzard, CC BY-SA 4.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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