The San Andreas Fault is a continental transform fault that extends roughly 1300 km in California. It forms tectonic boundary between Pacific plate and North American Plate. Its motion is right-lateral strike-slip. It is divided into three segments, and each of this segments has different characteristics and different degree of earthquake risk. The most significant segment is the southern one, which passes within about 35 miles of Los Angeles. This fault was first identified by professor Andrew Lawson from the UC Berkley in 1895.
A geologist's job includes determining the history of an area.
Answer: Option C
<u>Explanation:</u>
Geologists are researchers who studies the materials available in the earth about their nature, characteristics and their age. Speaking of the age of the materials it helps to understand the history of the earth, Each area in the earth's history has undergone several civilizations and lifestyles.
Also, it has experienced various natural changes or special space happenings. By working on that with the founded specimens or collected evidence they can create reports. That can help to get a clear understanding of the climatic changes, history and topography of the species are in the world.
Answer: Mikhail Gorbachev
Explanation:
In March 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev proposed policies of<em> perestroika </em>(restructuring) and <em>glasnost </em>(openness) in the Soviet Union. These seemed like policies that leaned in the direction of Western ways of economics and politics. <em>Perestroika </em>meant allowing some measure of private enterprise in the Soviet Union. <em>Glasnost </em>meant allowing a bit of freedom in regard to speech and publication. But don't get the idea that Gorbachev was trying to get rid of the Soviet communist system. He actually was trying to prop it up and preserve it, because it was starting to have many problems sustaining itself. But in the end, opening things up a bit with <em>perestroik</em>a and <em>glasnost </em>policies only pushed the USSR further in the direction of shedding the communist model under which it had lived for so long.
