Image: Traverse Ranges, Mojave Desert, Silverwood Lake

Description: The Mojave Desert or High desert on the right, with the San Bernardino Mountains (near) and San Gabriel Mountains (far) of the Transverse Ranges System on the left. Silverwood Lake reservoir in the San Bernardinos is a part of the California State Water Project system infrastructure. The San Andreas Fault runs straight up the middle, from San Bernardino County toward Los Angeles County on the horizon. The mountain ranges are formed by the Pacific Plate colliding into the North American Plate, right here, on this boundary. The 2 mountain ranges are also headed northwest. Here we are looking at the one section of the famous fault where a collision is actually taking place, because this is where the fault bends west before heading north again.
Title: Traverse Ranges, Mojave Desert, Silverwood Lake
Credit: originally posted to Flickr as 2008_09_08_bos-ord-sna_488
Author: Doc Searls
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