San Andreas Lake (from which the fault takes its name) is a ``sag pond'' that naturally formed in the valley of the San Andreas fault. Strike slip faults are good places for lakes; the fault both creates a low spot to collect the water, and grinds up the rock underneath making an impermeable layer to hold the water in.
In addition to providing us with shape and support for our skeleton, minerals are the âspark of life.â Minerals are essential in the diet and each plays unique and often multi-factorial roles as they act at all levels of the body â cells, tissues, organs, and the whole organism.
Minerals are essential for structuring iron's relationship to the blood cell's, cobalt's relationship to B12, and sodium and potassium controlling body fluids. Minerals are categorized into two groups: The major minerals which are present in large amounts, and trace minerals which are present in smaller amounts.