Transform+Boundries

~*~*~Transform Boundries~*~*~ Places where plates slide past each other are called transform boundaries. Since the plates on either side of a transform boundary are only sliding past each other and not tearing or crunching each other, transform boundaries lack the features found at convergent and divergent boundaries. Instead, transform boundaries are marked in some places by long valleys along the boundary where rock has been ground up by the sliding. In other places, transform boundaries are marked by features like stream beds that have been split in half and the two halves have moved in opposite directions.A **transform fault** is a fault which runs along the boundary of a tectonic plate. The most well known transform faults are found on land.Transform faults make up one of the three types of plate boundaries in plate tectonics. This term was first used by J. Tuzo Wilson in 1965 and he recognized the main idea in the case of the transverse strike-slip faults along which mid-oceanic proposedridges are off-set. || Below:A very famous transform boundry is the San Andreas fault in California.
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Most transform faults are found on the ocean floor. They commonly offset active spreading ridges, producing zig-zag plate margins, and are generally defined by shallow earthquakes. A few, however, occur on land. The San Andreas fault zone in California is a transform fault that connects the East Pacific Rise, a divergent boundary to the south, with the South Gorda -- Juan de Fuca -- Explorer Ridge, another divergent boundary to the north. The San Andreas is one of the few transform faults exposed on land. The San Andreas fault zone, which is about 1,300 km long and in places tens of kilometers wide, slices through two thirds of the length of California. Along it, the Pacific Plate has been grinding horizontally past the North American Plate for 10 million years, at an average rate of about 5 cm/yr. Land on the west side of the fault zone (on the Pacific Plate) is moving in a northwesterly direction relative to the land on the east side of the fault zone (on the North American Plate).

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**Questions-** Where are the most well known transform faults located?-Jeff Who first recognized the term Transform fault and in what year?-Katie (True or False)Transform fault is where plates slide past each other.-Nathaniel Where are most Transform Boundries found?-Cody What is one famous transform fault located in USA? -Brian What is one of the few transform faults exposed on land?-Angela "Transform Fault." //Wikipedia.com.// 6 November 2008. Wikipedia. 10 November 2008. . "Transform Boundaries." //Kidsgeo.com.// Kidsgeo. 10 November 2008.  http://www.gasd.k12.pa.us/~dpompa/Plate%20Boundaries.JPG "Transform Boundaries." //Cotf.com.// 28 April 2005. Cotf. 11 November 2008.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAHyk0CRqgE
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