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SIOG 253Interactions of Oceanic Plates and the California Margin

4 units · SIOG · UC San Diego

How the geology of Alta and Baja California has been shaped, especially in the past 30MYR, by changing patterns of ocean plates and microplates that have subducted beneath the North American Margin, slid obliquely past it, and captured continental crust.

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Prerequisites

From the catalog: “graduate standing, or consent of instructor.”