Using the plot in Figure 18.4, estimate how many coseismic uplift events the Highway 1 terrace must have experienced in order to reach its present elevation in the middle of the Aptos Arch. You will have to assert an age and a sea level at which the terrace platform formed – information provided elsewhere in the chapter.

Figure 18.4

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(a) (b) San Andreas Fault Coseismic Uplift (m) (c) N Inner Edge Elevation (m) Ano Nuevo 0.4 0.3 0.2 0.1 250 200 150 100 50 10 km 0 Highway 1 A Cement o Western 40 Highway A Cement o Western A Wilder Blackrock o Quarry com una prin Greyhound Rock Arch 0.05 008 M 0.10 O 0.10 X 0.40 0.30 0.20 0008 $800000000 10 0.15 Subsidence 70 Monterey Bay 30 20 0 San Andreas-Parallel Distance (km) 8 Aptos Arch -10