Geomorphology Final Exam - photo based California State University Earth Systems Science. Answer on a separate set of pages.
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Answers may be e-mailed or hard copy. This site is very arid today but may not have been as arid in the late Pleistocene and early Holocene. Overall offset rates may average about 3-4 cm per year here. This is a subduction plate boundary. Note that the terrace deposits are at multiple levels and that the river today seems to be incised into the local bedrock well below the lowest point in the pre-fill valley.