The San Andreas fault in California is an example of:
A) two tectonic plates pushing directly against each other.
B) an upthrust due to a hot spot in Earth's mantle.
C) a spreading center, where two tectonic plates are being pushed away from each other.
D) two tectonic plates sliding past each other.
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