1. WHAT ARE TRANSFORM BOUNDARIES (FAULTS)?

2. 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.

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. 2. 3.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 03.06.a2 TRANSFORM FAULT

8. TRANSFORM FAULT San Andreas Fault, California

9. San Francisco Los Angeles Published by AAAS O. Zielke et al., Science 327, 1119-1122 (2010)

10. Los Angeles San Francisco Oakland San Diego Eureka Sacramento Science 20 May 2011: Vol. 332 no. 6032 pp. 912-913

11. SAN ANDREAS FAULT

12. 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

13. 03.07.b1 TRANSFORM FAULT - HAITI

14. 10.13.a1 HAITI 2010

15. JAMAICA

16. PORT ROYAL JAMAICA, 1692 KINGSTON, JAMAICA, 1907

17. 10.13.a1 LESSER ANTILLES Island Arc

18. SOUFRIERE HILLS MONTSERRAT