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A transform fault or transform boundary, ... The best example is the San Andreas Fault on the Pacific coast of the United States.
The Motagua Fault, which crosses through Guatemala, is a transform boundary between the southern edge of the North American plate and the northern edge of the Caribbean plate. New Zealand's Alpine Fault is another active transform boundary. The Dead Sea Transform (DST) fault which runs through the Jordan River Valley in the Middle East.
At 33.3 Mya, the Macquarie triple junction was a stable ridge–transform fault–transform fault triple junction. In reference to the Australian plate, the triple junction moved southeast at an angle of 120° at an approximate rate of 40 km/million years. [ 5 ]
To the south, the San Andreas Fault, a strike-slip fault and transform plate boundary, separates the Pacific plate and the North American plate. To the north lies the Cascadia subduction zone, where a section of the Juan de Fuca plate called the Gorda plate is being subducted under the North American plate, forming a trench (T).
The San Andreas Fault is a continental right-lateral strike-slip transform fault that extends roughly 1,200 kilometers (750 mi) through the U.S. state of California. [1] It forms part of the tectonic boundary between the Pacific plate and the North American plate. Traditionally, for scientific purposes, the fault has been classified into three ...
The 800-mile San Andreas Fault is one of the largest fault lines in the world. A meeting of the North American and Pacific tectonic plates, this transform fault (where two tectonic plates move ...
Motion along the Mendocino Transform Fault (MTF) is right-lateral on E–W oriented, vertically dipping planes. Within the portion of North American crust overlying the Gorda slab, motion on faults is reverse, and in April 1992, a M 7.1 earthquake ruptured the southern portion of the Cascadia subduction zone.
The Queen Charlotte Fault is an active transform fault that marks the boundary of the North American plate and the Pacific plate. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is Canada 's right-lateral strike-slip equivalent to the San Andreas Fault to the south in California . [ 3 ]