Thanks for the additional information, Chris. It would seem that, as Wolfgang Pauli said of "some young physicist['s]" paper(Wikipedia), "That's not right. It's not even wrong".

The Pinnacles, for instance, have endured a full 315 km of strike-slip motion along the SAF. If that's not strike-slip, I don't know what is!

I am, as are you, astounded that a "geologist" would make such a statement.

Mike Williams