Comments on: Where on (Google) Earth #186 http://hypocentral.com/blog/2010/02/18/where-on-google-earth-186/ Greek: proposals, suppositions Thu, 12 Apr 2012 14:43:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Dan http://hypocentral.com/blog/2010/02/18/where-on-google-earth-186/#comment-808 Dan Thu, 18 Feb 2010 21:04:17 +0000 http://hypocentral.com/blog/?p=892#comment-808 The next Wo(G)E is up now: http://www.structuralgeology.org/2010/02/where-on-google-earth-no-187.html good luck everyone! The next Wo(G)E is up now:
http://www.structuralgeology.org/2010/02/where-on-google-earth-no-187.html

good luck everyone!

]]> By: Dan http://hypocentral.com/blog/2010/02/18/where-on-google-earth-186/#comment-807 Dan Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:35:23 +0000 http://hypocentral.com/blog/?p=892#comment-807 Thanks hypocentre, that was a good one. I'll be posting the next one shortly. Thanks hypocentre, that was a good one. I’ll be posting the next one shortly.

]]> By: hypocentre http://hypocentral.com/blog/2010/02/18/where-on-google-earth-186/#comment-806 hypocentre Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:46:52 +0000 http://hypocentral.com/blog/?p=892#comment-806 Congratulations. We have a winner. It is in fact the Atacama Fault, a major normal / strike-slip fault south of Antofagasta in northern Chile. It takes up some of the oblique component of the subduction of the Nazca Plate along the the Chile trench. Dan, it is over to you .... Congratulations. We have a winner. It is in fact the Atacama Fault, a major normal / strike-slip fault south of Antofagasta in northern Chile. It takes up some of the oblique component of the subduction of the Nazca Plate along the the Chile trench.

Dan, it is over to you ….

]]> By: Dan http://hypocentral.com/blog/2010/02/18/where-on-google-earth-186/#comment-805 Dan Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:38:52 +0000 http://hypocentral.com/blog/?p=892#comment-805 It also has some great looking alluvial fans showing the sharp scarp slope... It also has some great looking alluvial fans showing the sharp scarp slope…

]]> By: Dan http://hypocentral.com/blog/2010/02/18/where-on-google-earth-186/#comment-804 Dan Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:37:47 +0000 http://hypocentral.com/blog/?p=892#comment-804 Found it! It's location is: 24°19'54.79"S and 70°18'21.95"W near Sierra Remiendos in Chile. As far as a geological explanation, i don't know the area that well but as a guess it looks like either a very linear thrust front with the hangingwall to the west (top of the image) or a N-S strike-slip fault (due to it's linear nature). The fault also appears to be counter regional; i.e. thrusting east instead of west. Found it! It’s location is:

24°19’54.79″S and 70°18’21.95″W near Sierra Remiendos in Chile. As far as a geological explanation, i don’t know the area that well but as a guess it looks like either a very linear thrust front with the hangingwall to the west (top of the image) or a N-S strike-slip fault (due to it’s linear nature). The fault also appears to be counter regional; i.e. thrusting east instead of west.

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