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transform fault: a standalone construct

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Tectonics

a plate boundary where plates slide past each other horizontally, linking offset segments of ridges or trenches.

In tectonics, transform fault refers to a plate boundary where plates slide past each other horizontally, linking offset segments of ridges or trenches. This meaning comes from Wilson (1965) in Nature.[1]

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boundary4 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs fault3 fields · 3 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs offset3 fields · 5 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs

References

Wilson, J. T. (1965). A New Class of Faults and their Bearing on Continental Drift. Nature, 207(4995), 343-347. https://doi.org/10.1038/207343a0

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