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Fault Gouge on Pine Canyon Road

From Andrew Alden, About.com

West of Lake Hughes, Pine Canyon Road passes a spectacular exposure of gouge, the shattered and ground bedrock created near faults.
Photo (c) 2007 Andrew Alden, licensed to About.com
Los Angeles El Clamor Publico, January 10, 1857 (translated):

"From the first shock at 10 A.M. until five P.M. the earth has been moving constantly, though it has required close attention to notice this. There have certainly been more than a few periods, up to 20 minutes long, of almost imperceptible earthquakes. It seemed as though the Earth, tired of suffering our sins, was shaking herself free of us as birds shake off what disturbs their feathers. The day before the shock the clouds collided with each other, as if in aerial combat. One lady, seeing this, predicted that something was about to happen in the earth. Even the cocks' crows have seemed prophetic. For the last four or six weeks we have seen a new kind of white and dusty fog that has never appeared before. Some people who have spent time in it say that it stays in one's hair like flour or ashes. If I am not mistaken, some silent air currents have been passing over us, which have influenced even if they have not caused these earthquakes."

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