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Core of the Manix Fault

By Geology, Minerals, Energy, and Geophysics Science Center 2010 (approx.)
The core of the Manix Fault (dark band in foreground) separates two Pliocene sedimentary sequences
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The core of the Manix Fault (dark band dipping to the left in the middle of the image), which is an east-trending left-lateral fault in the central Eastern California Shear Zone, separates two Pliocene sedimentary sequences near Afton Canyon, central Mojave Desert

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