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10. Pleasant Valley - Geology Tour Road

The Blue Cut fault is an earthquake fault that runs for about 50 miles through the Little San Bernardino Mountains, under Pleasant Valley, and into the Pinto Basin. It is named after the Blue Grandiorite exposed on the mountains at the southwestern edge of Pleasant Valley, the main branch of the fault.

The Hexie Mountains were pushed up from the northern branch of the fault to form the steep, straight southern edge of this range of gneiss. The land to the south, between the two branches, dropped down and subsided to create the depression that became the Pleasant Valley.


Pleasant Valley - looking east

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