Salinian Block

The Salinian block is a geological province that lies west of the main trace of the San Andreas meandering system in California. It is bounded on the south by the Big Pine Fault in Ventura County and on the west by the Nacimiento Fault.

The Salinian block is made of hard granite and by origin of the earth's crust with sharp contrast and paradoxically the most crust in the East, the most in California and oceanic sedimentary origin. The granite batholith core or shares its origins with the in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. The Salinian block was the southern extension of the same Granitbatholiten that forms the core of the Sierra Nevada, broke off and was moving north-west due to the San Andreas Fault in a form that could not be fully explained until now.

Today, the northern parts of the block as Bodega Head, Point Reyes, the Farallon Islands and the picturesque coastal scenery on the Monterey Peninsula, include, for example, at the Pebble Beach.

The block was named after the Salinas Valley in California.