Mendocino

[men-duh-see-noh]

noun

1. Cape, a cape in NW California: the westernmost point in California.

Example Sentences

North of Cape Mendocino, California, the Juan de Fuca plate dives beneath North America along a megathrust subduction zone known as Cascadia.

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Radiocarbon dating revealed that many of these paired deposits north and south of Cape Mendocino formed at nearly the same time, within the limits of dating accuracy.

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The study suggests the Cascadia earthquake was followed by a northern San Andreas fault earthquake from Cape Mendocino toward San Francisco, with a magnitude of around 7.9.

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The other key implication is the inference that most past earthquakes on the northern San Andreas may have started around Cape Mendocino and then headed toward San Francisco.

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For one, there is evidence of a massive earthquake on the northern San Andreas fault from around Cape Mendocino through to San Francisco in 1700, including clues found in Lake Merced near the San Francisco Zoo, Goldfinger said, as well as in other sites north of the city.

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