Editing Garlock Fault (section)

==Geology==
The Garlock Fault is believed to have developed to accommodate the strain between the [[extensional tectonics]] of the [[Great Basin]] crust and the right lateral strike-slip faulting of the [[Mojave Desert]] crust.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h8fVs7EgaJEC&pg=PA375|title=Classic Cordilleran Concepts|access-date=2008-08-10|publisher=Department of Geology, University of Kansas|isbn=9780813723389|date=January 1999}}</ref>

Unlike most of the other faults in California, slip on the Garlock Fault is left-lateral; that is, the land on the other side of the fault moves to the left from the perspective of someone facing the fault.  Thus, the terrain north of the fault is moving westward and that on the south is moving eastward.