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WHAT ARE TRANSFORM BOUNDARIES (FAULTS)?
WHAT ARE TRANSFORM BOUNDARIES (FAULTS)?
At some locations on the surface of the Earth, plates are neither moving away from (diverging) or towards (converging)one another. At these points sections of the Earth slide horizontally past one another.
WHAT ARE TRANSFORM BOUNDARIES (FAULTS)?
At some locations on the surface of the Earth, plates are neither moving away from (diverging) or towards (converging)one another. At these points sections of the Earth slide horizontally past one another. These zones are “necessary” because:
1.
2.
3.
WHAT ARE TRANSFORM BOUNDARIES (FAULTS)?
At some locations on the surface of the Earth, plates are neither moving away from (diverging) or towards (converging)one another. At these points sections of the Earth slide horizontally past one another. These zones are “necessary” because:
1. The Earth’ s surface is curved.
2.
3.
WHAT ARE TRANSFORM BOUNDARIES (FAULTS)?
At some locations on the surface of the Earth, plates are neither moving away from (diverging) or towards (converging)one another. At these points sections of the Earth slide horizontally past one another. These zones are “necessary” because:
1. The Earth’ s surface is curved.
2. Not all plate boundaries interact with each other in a simple geometric fashion.
3.
WHAT ARE TRANSFORM BOUNDARIES (FAULTS)?
At some locations on the surface of the Earth, plates are neither moving away from (diverging) or towards (converging)one another. At these points sections of the Earth slide horizontally past one another. These zones are “necessary” because:
1. The Earth’ s surface is curved.
2. Not all plate boundaries interact with each other in a simple geometric fashion.
3. Rates of divergence and convergence vary globally.
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TRANSFORM FAULT
TRANSFORMFAULT
San Andreas Fault, California
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Published by AAAS
O. Zielke et al., Science 327, 1119-1122 (2010)
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Oakland
San Diego
Eureka
Sacramento
Science 20 May 2011: Vol. 332 no. 6032 pp. 912-913
SAN ANDREAS FAULT
Fig. 1 Setting of El Mayor–Cucapah earthquake surface rupture and LIDAR scan.
M E Oskin et al. Science 2012;335:702-705
Published by AAAS
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TRANSFORM FAULT - HAITI
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HAITI 2010
JAMAICA
PORT ROYALJAMAICA, 1692
KINGSTON, JAMAICA, 1907
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LESSER ANTILLES Island Arc
SOUFRIERE HILLSMONTSERRAT
