A fault along a plate boundary where the motion is predominantly horizontal, ending abruptly where it connects to another plate boundary, whether another transform, a spreading ridge or a subduction zone. Most are found in oceanic crust, where they accommodate the lateral offset between segments of divergent boundaries in a zigzag pattern born of oblique seafloor spreading; the smaller number on land include the better-known San Andreas and North Anatolian faults. The concept was conceived by J. Tuzo Wilson. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Origin YearWilson conceived the transform fault; his Nature paper A New Class of Faults and Their Bearing on Continental Drift appeared in 1965. Connections
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A transform fault is a special case of a strike-slip fault that also forms a plate boundary.
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The zigzag pattern of oceanic transforms results from oblique seafloor spreading along divergent boundaries.
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Wilson conceived of the transform fault, a major plate boundary where two plates move past each other horizontally.
Source John Tuzo Wilson (Wikipedia)
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A transform fault or transform boundary, is a fault along a plate boundary where the motion is predominantly horizontal.
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