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Transform fault

A transform fault or transform boundary, is a fault along a plate boundary where the motion is predominantly horizontal. It ends abruptly where it connects to another plate boundary, either another transform, a spreading ridge, or a subduction zone.

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related to Examples · 35
Transform fault → Africa, Ascension, Atlantic Ocean, California, Chain, During, East Pacific Ridge, East Pacific Rise, Farallon, Fuca, Gulf, Juan, Known, Mendocino, Mexico, North, North American, Northwestern United States, Oligocene Period, Once
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Transform fault → Deformation, Earth's, Fracture, Linear, Movement, Science, Transform, Types
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Transform fault → Although, Evidence, Instead, These, This, Transform, With
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Transform fault → Geophysicist, John Tuzo Wilson, Reid's, Slip, The, This
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Transform fault → Growing, In, These, Tuzo Wilson, Wilson
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Transform fault → Earth's, Faults, They, Transform
related to Difference between transform and transcurrent faults · 3
Transform fault → Both, Finally, Transform
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Transform fault → special case of a strike-slip fault that also forms a plate boundary.Most such faults are found in oceanic crust

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transform faults fault plate ridges length spreading boundary new ridge subduction seafloor found boundaries zones mid-oceanic created strike-slip san andreas

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Transform faultis aspecial case of a strike-slip fault that also forms a plate boundary.Most such faults are found in oceanic crust0.90text
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Transform faultrelated to Difference between transform and transcurrent faultsTransform0.60section
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Transform faultrelated to Difference between transform and transcurrent faultsFinally0.60section
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Transform faultrelated to ExamplesAtlantic Ocean0.60section

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