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	Transform Plate Boundaries - Transform Fault - Geology.com
		The fracture zone that forms a transform plate boundary is known as a transform fault.
		A strike-slip fault is a simple offset, however, a transform fault is formed between two different plates, each moving away from the spreading center of a divergent plate boundary.
		Another example of a transform boundary on land is the Alpine Fault of New Zealand.
	geology.com /nsta/transform-plate-boundaries.shtml (0 words)

	Plate tectonics
		Plate boundaries are the home of the majority of the world's active volcanoes with the Pacific Plate's Ring of Fire being most active and famous.
		The genesis of divergent boundaries is sometimes thought to be associated with the phenomenon known as hotspots.
		Divergent boundaries are typified in oceanic lithosphere by the rifts of the oceanic ridge system, including the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and, in continentental lithosphere by rift valleys such as the the famous East-African Rift.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/te/Tectonic_plate.html (1547 words)

	Plate Tectonic Theory: Plates and Interplate Relationships
		Note the line under the craton; that is the lower boundary of the lithosphere, and is the bottom boundary of the plate.
		Two divergent margins (plate boundaries) are present in the cross section: one labeled as such to the right of the continental craton, and the other on the left side.
		Divergent plate boundaries always create new ocean floor (that is, new mafic oceanic lithosphere, called the ophiolite suite) when magma oozes into the crack as plates separate.
	csmres.jmu.edu /geollab/Fichter/PlateTect/plates.html (1238 words)

	Transform - Boundaries (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The boundary lines have been selected and moved slightly in the illustration at right to show clearly the addition of lines.
		Note that creating a boundary line around each area will create coincident lines along places where the periphery of one area coincides with the periphery of an adjacent area.
		transform before running to eliminate common errors that may affect correct operation.
	www.manifold.net /doc/7x/transform_boundaries.htm (161 words)

	tectonic
		The older oceanic crust is drawn downward with the upper mantle as the lithosphere subducts in the deep ocean trench regions.
		Where the plates slide past one another along transform faults -- as on the north coast of Turkey -- and the ocean rise offsets, the earthquakes are shallow to intermediate depths.
		The oceanic ridge is not being offset by motion along the transform fault; it was offset previously and may represent an old line of weakness in the rifted continental crust that preceded the development of the oceanic crust.
	geology.uprm.edu /Morelock/GEOLOCN_/plate.htm (2224 words)

	Teachers' Domain: Tectonic Plates and Plate Boundaries
		Boundaries where two plates move toward each other are called convergent boundaries.
		In general, if at least one of the plates along a convergent boundary is made up of relatively dense oceanic crust, the denser of the two plates subducts, or slides beneath the other.
		At other convergent boundaries, when both plates are made up of continental crust, one plate does not easily slide beneath the other and the continents buckle and fold to create mountain ranges, such as the Himalayas at the boundary between the Indian and Eurasian plates.
	www.teachersdomain.org /resources/ess05/sci/ess/earthsys/boundaries/index.html (647 words)

	Plate Tectonics
		In that case, the boundary between ocean crust and continental crust is not a plate boundary.
		At divergent plate boundaries, two lithospheric plates move apart, and new plate (and crust) are created at the boundary.
		Transform boundaries occur when two plates move parallel to one another in opposite directions, so that there is neither divergence or convergence.
	www.trinity.edu /gkroeger/GEOS1304/Notes/intro%20plate.htm (736 words)

	Finding faults
		Transform plate boundary (North Anatolian and San Andreas Faults): The plates move laterally (as shown).
		Divergent plate boundary (usually found at mid-oceanic ridges): The plates move away from each other, and new rock solidifies from hot magma rising from the upper mantle.
		Convergent plate boundary (found in the U.S. Pacific Northwest): The denser oceanic plate "subducts" beneath the less dense continental plate.
	www.geology.wisc.edu /courses/g115/quake/4.html (757 words)

	Plate Tectonics: Plate Boundaries
		Convergent boundaries are located where subduction is active and the lithosphere is being "consumed".
		Transform boundaries occur where plates are grinding past one another, like the San Andreas fault.
		Plate boundary zones are broad belts in which boundaries are not well defined and the effects of plate interaction are unclear.
	www.uwsp.edu /geo/faculty/ritter/geog101/textbook/tectonics_landforms/tectonics_plate_boundary_types.html (167 words)

	Teachers' Domain: Earthquakes: Los Angeles
		The majority of earthquakes and volcanoes occur along the boundaries of tectonic plates, where slabs of solid rock up to 30 kilometers (19 miles) thick are pulled apart, slide past one another, or collide with other slabs.
		Plate boundaries are defined by the direction plates move in relation to one another.
		At divergent boundaries, plates move away from each other; at convergent boundaries, they move toward each other; and at transform boundaries, they slide past each other.
	www.teachersdomain.org /resources/ess05/sci/ess/earthsys/thrustfault/index.html (636 words)

	The Remarkable Ocean World: The Library: Pele, the Hawaiian Fire Goddess
		Plate boundaries are where the action is. This is where the driving forces of plate tectonics takes place, and these boundaries are the source of most of the earthquakes of the world.
		Transform faults, occur quite frequently along oceanic ridges, and appear as cracks parallel to the main direction of the ridge.
		As a transform boundary, it connects the East Pacific Rise, a divergent boundary south of us, with the Juan de Fuca Ridge, another divergent ridge, which is off the coast of Washington.
	www.cbv.ns.ca /sarty/ocean11/plates.html (3406 words)

	ScienceMaster - JumpStart - Plate Motion
		Transform boundaries -- where crust is neither produced nor destroyed as the plates slide horizontally past each other.
		Plate boundary zones -- broad belts in which boundaries are not well defined and the effects of plate interaction are unclear.
		This transform fault connects the East Pacific Rise, a divergent boundary to the south, with the South Gorda -- Juan de Fuca -- Explorer Ridge, another divergent boundary to the north.
	www.sciencemaster.com /jump/earth/plate_motion.php (2550 words)

	Geosphere Background (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In addition, the load of unconsolidated sediments on the ocean crust, mainly shells and fragments of microscopic organisms and clay, is thinnest in the vicinity of the ridge, and progressively thicker away from the ridge.
		Transform faults form plate boundaries where the motion between plates is neither towards nor away, only slipping horizontally past each other.
		Transform faults are a prominent feature of the ocean floor, where they offset the mid-oceanic ridges and the associated paleomagnetic and age patterns.
	www.math.montana.edu /~nmp/materials/ess/geosphere/background (6418 words)

	Understanding plate motions [This Dynamic Earth, USGS]
		Transform boundaries -- where crust is neither produced nor destroyed as the plates slide horizontally past each other.
		Plate boundary zones -- broad belts in which boundaries are not well defined and the effects of plate interaction are unclear.
		This transform fault connects the East Pacific Rise, a divergent boundary to the south, with the South Gorda -- Juan de Fuca -- Explorer Ridge, another divergent boundary to the north.
	pubs.usgs.gov /gip/dynamic/understanding.html (0 words)

	Continental Drift and Tectonic Plates
		The genesis of divergent boundaries is sometimes thought to be associated with the phenomenon known as hotspots.
		Divergent boundaries are typified in the oceanic lithosphere by the rifts of the oceanic ridge system, including the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, and in the continental lithosphere by rift valleys such as the famous East African Great Rift Valley.
		The nature of a convergent boundary depends on the type of lithosphere in the plates that are colliding.
	www.crystalinks.com /tectonicplates.html (1448 words)

	CNR-->Istituto ISMAR --> Articoli JCR (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Examples are the 750-kmlong, 120-km-wide Andrew Bain transform on the Southwest Indian Ridge, and the Romanche transform, where the Mid-Atlantic Ridge is offset by a lens-shaped, 900-km long, 100-km-wide sliver of deformed lithosphere bound by two major transform valleys.
		Whether an oceanic transform boundary follows a single narrow strike-slip fault, as in most oceanic transforms, or a multiple broad boundary, depends ultimately on the thermal structure below the transform zone, i.e., on the age offset (length of offset combined with spreading rate).
		Our double transform model explains the migration of the Romanche principal transform boundary from the northern to the southern valley implying that the lithosphere between the two boundaries shifted from the South American to the African plate, thus reversing its sense of motion.
	www.cnr.it /istituti/ArticoliJCR.html?cds=080&id=27669 (388 words)

	Observing the Effects Caused by Plate Movements
		When the strength of the rocks at the plate boundary is exceeded, they move rapidly, "catching up" with the rest of the plates.
		At transform boundaries, mostly earthquakes are produced; any mountains will be very small.
		Make sure that you use a tub of sand that is large enough for the students to be able to move their hands in it.
	www.msnucleus.org /membership/html/k-6/pt/plate/4/ptpt4_2a.html (577 words)

	18. Transform Plate Boundaries
		Transform boundaries, in many places, form steps in the mid-ocean ridges.
		Another type of transform lies just outside our door....the well-known San Andreas fault marks the location of the transform plate boundary that runs through much of California, at least from the Gulf of California in the south to Cape Mendocino in the north.
		This plate boundary is responsible for the great 1906 San Francisco earthquake as well as the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake and 1991 Northridge earthquake.
	oceansjsu.com /105/exped_commotion/18.html (188 words)

	Demonstrating Features Caused by Stress
		At converging plate boundaries rocks are squeezed (compression), at diverging plate boundaries they are stretched (tension or extension), and at transform boundaries they are pushed past each other (shear).
		Explain that mountains form at converging plate boundaries, where plates squeeze together, and valleys are more common where plates move apart, at diverging plate boundaries.
		Demonstrate converging, diverging, and transform plate boundary motions to the students.
	www.msnucleus.org /membership/html/k-6/pt/plate/1/ptpt1_2a.html (539 words)

	Plate Tectonics
		Transform boundaries -- where crust is neither produced nor destroyed as the plates slide past each other.
		Divergent boundaries -- where new crust is generated as the plates pull away from each other.
		Convergent boundaries -- where crust is destroyed as one plate dives under another.
	www.angelfire.com /sc3/fizisist/page16.htm (617 words)

	Pangea and Earth's plates - Pangea
		Transform boundaries--Where Earth's crust is not destroyes or formed when plates slide past eachother.
		Plate boundary zone--Large areas in which boundaries are not well defined.
		Transform boundaries happen when two plate slide horrizontally past each other tearing Earth's surface.
	www.freewebs.com /trevorg/plateboundaries.htm (161 words)

	Plate Tectonics : Plate Boundaries
		These are also known as transform boundaries or more commonly as faults.
		The San Andreas fault zone in California is a transform fault that connects the East Pacific Rise, a divergent boundary to the south, with the South Gorda -- Juan de Fuca -- Explorer Ridge, another divergent boundary to the north.
		Land on the west side of the fault zone (on the Pacific Plate) is moving in a northwesterly direction relative to the land on the east side of the fault zone (on the North American Plate).
	www.platetectonics.com /book/page_5.asp (0 words)

	Earth Floor: Plate Tectonics
		Since the plates on either side of a transform boundary are merely sliding past each other and not tearing or crunching each other, transform boundaries lack the spectacular features found at convergent and divergent boundaries.
		Instead, transform boundaries are marked in some places by linear valleys along the boundary where rock has been ground up by the sliding.
		In other places, transform boundaries are marked by features like stream beds that have been split in half and the two halves have moved in opposite directions.
	www.cotf.edu /ete/modules/msese/earthsysflr/plates4.html (0 words)

	Earth Floor: Plate Tectonics
		The place where the two plates meet is called a plate boundary.
		Boundaries have different names depending on how the two plates are moving in relationship to each other
		With respect to plate boundaries is your home located in the middle of, or near the boundary of a plate?
	www.cotf.edu /ete/modules/msese/earthsysflr/plates1.html (198 words)

	Plate boundaries
		Divergent boundaries: In such a boundary two plates are moving away from each other.
		This slipping however generally doesn't happen smoothly - because of friction the plates remain in place for a while, building up a kind of stored potential energy from the forces trying to move them, and then this energy is released suddenly when the forces become too large.
		A notable example of a transform boundary is the San Andreas fault in California.
	theory.uwinnipeg.ca /mod_tech/node193.html (237 words)

	Earth and Space Science \| Session 4
		A central concept of plate tectonics is that large portions of the Earth's lithosphere — the crust and the rigid part of the upper mantle — move relative to one another.
		Examples include the Alpine fault in New Zealand, which forms the boundary between the Australian and Pacific plates, the Dead Sea fault, which forms the boundary between the African and Arabian plates, and the San Andreas fault, which lies between the Pacific and North American plates in California.
		These regions, called “plate-boundary zones,” are large areas where the effects of plate interactions are unclear Plate boundary zones involve at least two large plates and one or more microplates (small plate fragments) caught up between the larger plates.
	www.learner.org /channel/courses/essential/earthspace/session4/closer2.html (693 words)

	Plate Tectonics: Transform Plate Boundaries
		The San Andreas Fault, California, is a transform boundary that separates the North American and Pacific Plates.
		Transform plate boundary - where plates slide past each other, neither is consumed or created.
		The San Andreas Fault is a transform boundary that separates the North American and Pacific Plates.
	www.mhhe.com /earthsci/geology/mcconnell/pte/tpb.htm (0 words)

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	A Science Odyssey: You Try It: Plate Tectonics: Transform
		Rather, two plates move against each other, building up tension, then releasing the tension in a sudden and often violent jerk.
		The San Andreas Fault is undoubtedly the most famous transform boundary in the world.
		To the west of the fault is the Pacific plate, which is moving northwest.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/aso/tryit/tectonics/transform.html (0 words)

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	Essentials of Geology : Chapter 2 : Animations
		Geologists define three types of plate boundary, based simply on the relative motions of the plates on either side of the boundary.
		At convergent plate boundaries or convergent margins, two plates, at least one of which is oceanic, move toward each other.
		Rifting is the process by which a continent splits and separates to form a new divergent boundary.
	www.wwnorton.com /earth/egeo/animations/ch2.htm (603 words)

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