Kern Canyon Fault

Kern Canyon Fault

The Kern Canyon Fault is a geological fault which runs the length of Kern Canyon in the southern Sierra Nevada mountains in California.

The fault is generally considered inactive, but a recent study suggests that this may not be true. [ [http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2005AGUFM.T51D1369N Recent Motion on the Kern Canyon Fault, Southern Sierra Nevada, California ] ]

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