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Figure 12. (a) Radar image of the volcanic tablelands, Bishop, California. The image shows a series of en echelon marginal faults in the Bishop tuff running obliquely across the image with north-south-oriented interior faults in the center left of the image. (Image courtesy of Conoco Exploration.) (b) Line diagram interpretation of (a). This image is an example of oblique rifting with the extension direction oriented east-west.
