A transform plate boundary is a fault where two tectonic plates slide horizontally past one another along a strike-slip fault. Transform boundaries connect other plate boundaries like spreading ridges or subduction zones, allowing plates to move laterally. They experience shear stress that causes sliding motion between plates, neither creating nor destroying lithosphere and not generating mountain ranges like other boundary types.
A transform plate boundary is a fault where two tectonic plates slide horizontally past one another along a strike-slip fault. Transform boundaries connect other plate boundaries like spreading ridges or subduction zones, allowing plates to move laterally. They experience shear stress that causes sliding motion between plates, neither creating nor destroying lithosphere and not generating mountain ranges like other boundary types.
A transform plate boundary is a fault where two tectonic plates slide horizontally past one another along a strike-slip fault. Transform boundaries connect other plate boundaries like spreading ridges or subduction zones, allowing plates to move laterally. They experience shear stress that causes sliding motion between plates, neither creating nor destroying lithosphere and not generating mountain ranges like other boundary types.
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.