1. San Andreas Fault Images
Transform Plate Boundary (Pacific & North American Plates)
Right-lateral Strike-slip Fault (RLSS)

2. Wallace Creek (Carrizo Plain Nat’l Monument)

3. Looking to the southeast

5. Lidar Data 

9. Summary
The San Andreas Fault is a “right-lateral strike-slip” (RLSS) fault.
When a “lateral” fault is ALSO a plate boundary it is also called a transform fault
Plate tectonics language
Lateral faults that are not plate boundaries are just called (right/left- lateral) strike-slip faults.

10. Left-lateral strike-slip (LLSS)
Example: The Garlock Fault in California
Not a plate boundary – so not correct to call it a transform fault

11. Garlock Fault
SAF

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