A transform fault or transform boundary, is a fault along a plate boundary where the motion is predominantly horizontal. It ends abruptly where it connects...

such as the megathrust faults of subduction zones or transform faults. Energy release associated with rapid movement on active faults is the cause of most...

The Dead Sea Transform (DST) fault system, also sometimes referred to as the Dead Sea Rift, is a series of faults that run for about 1,000 km from the...

The Rivera Transform Fault, also referred to as the Rivera Fracture Zone, is a right lateral-moving (dextral) transform fault which lies along the seafloor...

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...

The Azores–Gibraltar transform fault (AGFZ), also called a fault zone and a fracture zone, is a major seismic zone in the eastern Atlantic Ocean between...

along transform boundaries at mid-ocean ridge spreading centres and at strike-slip systems parallel to oblique subduction zones. Strike-slip faults have...

The Sagaing Fault is a major fault in Myanmar, a mainly continental right-lateral transform fault between the Indian plate and Sunda plate. It links the...

A leaky transform fault is a transform fault with volcanic activity along a significant portion of its length producing new crust. In addition to the regular...

the Cayman Trench, Bartlett Deep and Bartlett Trough) is a complex transform fault zone pull-apart basin which contains a small spreading ridge, the Mid-Cayman...

The Queen Charlotte Fault is an active transform fault on the boundary between the North American plate and Pacific plates. It is Canada's right-lateral...

other extensional cracks and transform faults are found perpendicular to the spreading direction.: 50  The transform-fault zones are also known as fracture...

lithosphere. This type of tectonics is found along oceanic and continental transform faults which connect offset segments of mid-ocean ridges. Strike-slip tectonics...

southern transform to the eastern end of the northern transform, sometimes called an intra-transform spreading centre. : 193  The northern transform fault displaces...

an active transform fault move in opposite directions; here, strike-slip activity occurs. Fracture zones extend past the transform faults, away from...

The Ballenas Fault is a transform fault located on the seabed of the Gulf of California, extending through the Canal de Ballenas which separates the Isla...

East Anatolian Fault runs in a northeasterly direction, starting from the Maraş triple junction at the northern end of the Dead Sea Transform, and ending...

(T) or transform fault (F) – and triple junctions can be described according to the types of plate margin that meet at them (e.g. fault–fault–trench,...

The Swan Islands Transform Fault is an active left-lateral (sinistral) strike-slip fault zone that forms part of the boundary between the Caribbean plate...

Anatolian Fault and the East Anatolian Fault respectively. According to the American Museum of Natural History, the Anatolian transform fault system is...

The Motagua Fault (also, Motagua Fault Zone) is a major, active left lateral-moving transform fault which cuts across Guatemala. It forms part of the...

The Magallanes–Fagnano Fault (Spanish: Falla Fagnano–Magallanes) is a continental transform fault. The fault marks a transform boundary between the Scotia...

fault zones can be identified on the surface of Mars (e.g., in the Valles Marineris trough), which can be likened to plate-bounding transform faults on...

plate to the east is a transform fault, represented by the Swan Islands Transform Fault under the Caribbean Sea and the Motagua Fault through Guatemala. The...

Anatolian Fault (NAF; Turkish: Kuzey Anadolu Fay Hattı) is an active right-lateral strike-slip fault in northern Anatolia, and is the transform boundary...

continental transform faults, zones of oblique collision and the deforming foreland of zones of continental collision. When strike-slip fault zones develop...

the ocean floor along the Azores–Gibraltar Transform Fault detected a 50-kilometre-long (31 mi) thrust fault southwest of Cape St. Vincent, with a dip-slip...

The Blanco fracture zone or Blanco transform fault zone (BTFZ) is a right lateral transform fault zone, which runs northwest off the coast of Oregon in...

Australian–Pacific transform boundary. At 33.3 Mya, the Macquarie triple junction was a stable ridge–transform fault–transform fault triple junction. In...

being taken up by the San Andreas Fault system to the west. The Walker Lane may represent an incipient major transform fault zone which could replace the San...