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