WHAT ARE TRANSFORM BOUNDARIES (FAULTS)?

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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:

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.

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.

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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Setting of El Mayor–Cucapah earthquake surface rupture and LIDAR scan Setting of El Mayor–Cucapah earthquake surface rupture and LIDAR scan. (A) Regional active fault map compiled from pre-earthquake sources (18, 19). The elongate yellow region denotes the extent of the postearthquake LIDAR survey. (B) LIDAR-derived height-difference map (post- minus pre-earthquake) for the Sierra Cucapah (see fig. S1 for a more detailed version). Fault ruptures mapped from scarps in postevent LIDAR data are shown as black lines. The black dotted line is the trace of the 1892 Laguna Salada fault rupture (9). Distributed deformation across the Paso Inferior and Puerta accommodation zones separate localized slip along principal faults. 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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