37°34′44″N 121°33′50″W / 37.579°N 121.564°W / 37.579; -121.564 The Tesla Fault can be found in the northeastern Diablo Range, California . This fault is only semi-active.
7-720: This fault has been demonstrated to have a dextral offset of 8.5 kilometers (5.3 mi) and is closely associated with the Greenville Fault. The Tesla Fault forms the eastern boundary of the large aquifer known as the Mocho Subbasin. Some groundwater flow of the Mocho Subbasin occurs across the Tesla fault boundary, but flows are discontinuous below a depth of 50 feet (15 m) across the Tesla Fault. This Contra Costa County, California –related article
14-612: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Dextral Sinistral and dextral , in some scientific fields, are the two types of chirality (" handedness ") or relative direction . The terms are derived from the Latin words for "left" ( sinister ) and "right" ( dexter ). Other disciplines use different terms (such as dextro- and laevo-rotary in chemistry , or clockwise and anticlockwise in physics ) or simply use left and right (as in anatomy ). Relative direction and chirality are distinct concepts. Relative direction
21-448: Is from the point of view of the observer; a completely symmetric object has a left side and a right side, from the observer's point of view, if the top and bottom and direction of observation are defined. Chirality, however, is observer-independent: no matter how one looks at a right-hand screw thread , it remains different from a left-hand screw thread. Therefore, a symmetric object has sinistral and dextral directions arbitrarily defined by
28-412: The direction of the coil is dextral (right-handed). A small minority of species and genera have shells in which the coils are almost always sinistral (left-handed). Very few species show an even mixture of dextral and sinistral individuals (for example, Amphidromus perversus ). The most obvious characteristic of flatfish , other than their flatness, is their asymmetric morphology: both eyes are on
35-408: The horizontal component of the movement of blocks on either side of a fault or the sense of movement within a shear zone . These are terms of relative direction, as the movement of the blocks is described relative to each other when viewed from above. Movement is sinistral (left-handed) if the block on the other side of the fault moves to the left, or if straddling the fault the left side moves toward
42-408: The position of the observer, while an asymmetric object that shows chirality may have sinistral and dextral directions defined by characteristics of the object, regardless of the position of the observer. Because the coiled shells of gastropods are asymmetric, they possess a quality called chirality –the "handedness" of an asymmetric structure. Over 90% of gastropod species have shells in which
49-442: The same side of the head in the adult fish. In some families of flatfish, the eyes are always on the right side of the body ( dextral or right-eyed flatfish), and in others, they are always on the left ( sinistral or left-eyed flatfish). Primitive spiny turbots include equal numbers of right- and left-sided individuals, and are generally more symmetric than other families. In geology , the terms sinistral and dextral refer to
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