10/18/21

Did the Channel Islands break off of the mainland?

Island Rotation - Tanya Atwater, geophysicist and marine geologist, explains her theory of how once upon a time the Channel Islands used to be located next to San Diego. Over the millennia plate tectonics 'rotated' them to where they are now off Santa Barbara.
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