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WHAT ARE TRANSFORM BOUNDARIES (FAULTS)?

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. .

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WHAT ARE TRANSFORM BOUNDARIES (FAULTS)?

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  1. WHAT ARE TRANSFORM BOUNDARIES (FAULTS)?

  2. 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.

  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:

  4. 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: • The Earth’ s surface is curved.

  5. 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: • The Earth’ s surface is curved. • Not all plate boundaries interact with each other in a simple geometric fashion.

  6. 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: • The Earth’ s surface is curved. • Not all plate boundaries interact with each other in a simple geometric fashion. • Rates of divergence and convergence vary globally.

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  8. TRANSFORM FAULT San Andreas Fault, California

  9. San Francisco Los Angeles O. Zielke et al., Science 327, 1119-1122 (2010) Published by AAAS

  10. Eureka Sacramento Oakland San Francisco Science 20 May 2011: Vol. 332 no. 6032 pp. 912-913 Los Angeles San Diego

  11. SAN ANDREAS FAULT

  12. 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

  13. TRANSFORM FAULT - HAITI 03.07.b1

  14. HAITI 2010 10.13.a1

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  16. PORT ROYALJAMAICA, 1692 KINGSTON, JAMAICA, 1907

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  18. SOUFRIERE HILLS MONTSERRAT

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