The earthquakes that jolted the Santa Rosa area last week have raised questions about the Rodgers Creek Fault.
It’s a process, creating maps of the trench walls and studying the sediments underground that have been broken by the fault in the past
The study is ongoing and had been planned, they just happened to schedule this excavation two days after the earthquakes."If you think about the amount of energy that it takes to move clay sized material, versus this the size of a golf ball, this is a much higher energy deposition that this. So you wouldn’t you cant easily deposit material like this directly next to material like this," he said.
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