Definitions for "Transform fault"
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Rift, Horst, Benioff zone, Graben, Divergent plate boundary, Rifting, Transform boundary, Subduction zone, Divergent boundary, Rift valley, Convergent plate boundary, Subduction, Passive margin, Fault line, Thrust fault, Plate boundary, Reverse fault, Seafloor spreading, Tectonic plate, Uplift, Triple junction, Fault scarp, Normal fault, Convergent boundary, Mid-ocean ridge, Spreading center, Strike-slip fault, Tectonic plates, Suture, Thrust , Moho , Sea-floor spreading, Massif, Plate tectonics, Fault zone, Orogeny, Plate, Mohorovicic discontinuity, Oceanic ridge, Rift zone, Oceanic trench, Faulting, Nappe, Tectonics, Relief, Active fault, Continental drift, Volcanic arc, Mountain, Tectonic
A special type of strike-slip fault forming the boundary between two moving lithospheric plates, usually along an offset segment of the oceanic ridge. See also: passive plate margin.
Area where the earth's lithospheric plates move in opposite but parallel directions along a fracture (fault) in the lithosphere. Compare convergent plate boundary, divergent plate boundary.
A fault marking a transform plate boundary; along mid-ocean ridges, transform faults are the actively slipping segment of a fracture zone between two ridge segments.
A strike-slip fault that connects offsets in a mid-ocean ridge.
A class of vertical fault with a horizontal displacement vector that does not link two or more plate tectonic scale boundaries.
point at which strike-slip displacements stop and another structural feature, such as a ridge, develops. A fault laterally displacing ocean ridges. Superficially they appear to be strike-slip faults, but lateral movement in opposite directions to either side of the fault only occurs in the zone between the offset segments of ocean ridge.
a geological fault in which the rock fracture is caused by lateral movement of two surfaces
a particular type of strike-slip fault that is a boundary of an oceanic tectonic plate
A strike-slip fault connecting the ends of an offset in a midoceanic ridge, an island arc, or an arc-ridge chain. Pairs of plates slide past each other along transform faults.
Also called a transform plate boundary. An area where two plates meet and are moving side to side past each other.
A special variety of strike-slip fault that accommodates relative horizontal slip between other tectonic elements, such as oceanic crustal plates. Often extend from oceanic ridges.
a type of plate boundary where two plates slide past each other.
Massive strike-slip fault continental in size. Examples of such faults occur along tectonic plate boundaries and at the mid-oceanic ridge.
one of numerous strike-slip faults between segments of mid-oceanic ridges and rises along which lateral movement of crustal plates occurs. [AHDOS
A transform fault is a geological fault that is a special case of strike-slip faulting which terminates abruptly, at both ends, at a major transverse geological feature.