Figure 7.17: The Teton Range in Wyoming rose up along a normal fault. ( 22 )block that your right foot is on, the fault is known as a right-lateral strike-slip fault. If the
block moving toward you is the one your left foot is on, the fault is a left-lateral strike-slip
fault (Figure7.18).
Figure 7.18: The two types of strike-slip faults. ( 4 )The world’s most famous strike-slip fault is the San Andreas Fault in California, which is a
right-lateral strike slip fault (Figure7.19). Because the San Andreas is a plate boundary,
it is also called a transform fault. People sometimes say that California will fall into the
ocean someday, but this is a joke. The portion west of the San Andreas Fault is moving
northeastward and someday Los Angeles will be a suburb of San Francisco, but the land
west of the San Andreas Fault is a solid piece of continental crust that will not disappear
entirely.