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I'm Levy Dalton.

I'm Erin Scala and here's our show today. Oh, Who is to blame for the Santa Cruz Mountains? Well I'll tell you whose fault it is.

Andreas. I'll tell you whose fault it is.

Andres.

That's right, the San Andreas Fault

has been crunching up land along California's coast

and has pushed up some mountains above the fog line that are great

for growing Pinonoir and Chardonnay. The San Andreas Fault is the result of two tectonic plates, pushing up against one another.

The Pacific Plate is pushing upward and to the west,

while the North American Plate is pushing downward into the west. But because the Pacific plate is

pushing a bit harder, the North American plate seems more like it is moving towards

the east. If you can imagine 20 million years in the future, if nothing changes with the plate's current motions,

LA will literally slide up alongside San Francisco.

That's right, in 20 million years, you might have a view of the Golden Gate Bridge from Hollywood.

But for now, the Santa Cruz Mountains are in the way.

It's these mountains that separate the Pacific from the San Francisco Bay.

It's these mountains that prevent a wall of fog from barreling in from the ocean.

The plates are brushing by one another at approximately 35 millimeters each year and

some geologists posit that they've already slid past one another for about 350 miles.

But if you look back even farther, say 100 million years,

you'll see that this particular area of the planet

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