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 What is the Transform plate boundary?

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 to
another plate boundary, either another transform, a spreading
ridge, or a subduction zone. A transform fault is a special case
of strike-slip fault that also forms a plate boundary.

 Why Transform plate boundary?


A transform boundary occurs when two tectonic plates move
past one another. Shear stress operates at transform
boundaries, which involves sliding motion. No lithosphere is
destroyed or created, and mountain chains are not built at
transform boundaries.

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