ML20212M238

Forwards Diagram Showing That Prior to 5 Million Yrs Ago Relative Motion Between Pacific & North American Plates Greater than San Andreas Fault Motion

ML20212M238
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Site:	05000000, Diablo Canyon
Issue date:	07/22/1977
From:	Thompson G AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED, GEORGE A. THOMPSON
To:	Mckinley J Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards
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FOIA-86-391 ACRS-CT-0826A, ACRS-CT-826A, NUDOCS 8608250421
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Dear John:

The enclocerl dic;rc:: ca. interest Con it:ce.c ccr-and staff vi:b resp;ct to ths Diablo C:r.ycn plant.

The fi - r : vas recen:ly bu. ic :aken fren publirhed by the San Jcaquin Geolcgical 5::.12: -

a Stanford th2 sis (Crahca, S.A., 1976, Tertir.-; soci.entary tec tonics of the central Salinian block of Califerrtia:

Stanford Univ. Ph.D.

thesis, 510 p.).

k'ha : the figurc shows is th:: prier to about 5 nillior. years a;o the relativ: notion batvaen tSc ?1,cific and 'crth !..crice.a plates (Curte C er D) vcs greater than the San le.d.:: s f aul

Tion (Curve A).

Eut in the last 5.;,. ::.ere is little dif f erence ':e veen -he. zurves.

These cc:p.risens cean that almost all of :he relatite plate to:ien in the last 5 c.y. tss on the San Andrcas fault, whereas before that tiac large disple:enants cust hcve taken pls:e or. other f aults.

This interpretati:n s conristent beth with !!:ll's avidence of large te: 1 dirpla:cc:.c and with th: cypli:s.t's inferen:e,;,f a small WM ucdern rc:c ef dispit.:crent cicn;; the !!osgri f ault.

c:cly yours, Sinc /,/

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