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| N. American-Pacific Tectonic Plate Boundary: An exceptional southeastward view of the boundary between the North American and Pacific tectonic plates in central California. On the west are the forested Sierra Nevada and the central valley, which formed during collision of the two plates about 90 million years ago. The collisional margin evolved to a transform one about 30 million years ago; the San Andreas fault is the best-known element of that transform fault system. Lake Tahoe and Mono Lake are visible in the eastern Sierra Nevada, beyond which extends the Basin and Range province of stretched continental crust. |
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