![DuryeaFaultLine](https://mlml.sjsu.edu/student-life/wp-content/uploads/sites/75/2010/12/n4914873_45411930_7198.jpg)
It may be hard to believe, but that concrete canal is broken because the earth here actually moved. The canal was built on a fault line, which makes it so easy to see the results of tectonic activity. A student in the Geological Oceanography class takes a look while on a field trip.