Sentence examples for transform boundaries from inspiring English sources

The joint pole of rotation of two plates can be determined from their transform boundaries, which are by definition parallel to the direction of motion.

In contrast, the gap left behind the trailing edge of plate A forms a divergent boundary with plate B. As plate A slides past portions of both plate B and plate C, transform boundaries develop.

Niida (1992) noted that alkali igneous rocks with a high Na2O/K2O ratio occur in restricted areas along transform boundaries, as exemplified by the modern Andaman arc setting.

In this study, although the estimated strength of 3 75 MPa may be regarded as a global average strength for a number of plate boundaries of various types, including convergent and transform boundaries, the estimated strength is consistent with a stress level deduced from high-resolution seismic observations of specific areas, as mentioned above.

These structural regimes broadly relate to convergent boundaries, divergent boundaries, and transform boundaries, respectively, between tectonic plates.

These plates are rigid segments that move in relation to one another at one of three types of plate boundaries: convergent boundaries, at which two plates come together, divergent boundaries, at which two plates are pulled apart, and transform boundaries, in which two plates slide past one another laterally.

The map area straddles the right-lateral transform boundary... Geological Survey (U.S.).

The EPG fault system makes up a transform boundary that separates the Gonâve microplate the fragment of the North American Plate upon which Haiti is situated from the Caribbean Plate.

In its northern edge, the right-lateral transform boundary of the San Andreas Fault system turns into the divergent motion of the East Pacific Rise, which continues south through the Gulf of California.

An ocean continent transform boundary developed off western Tasmania follows the trace of an older Paleozoic strike-slip structure (Avoca Sorell fault system) optimally oriented for reactivation during the final separation of Australia from Antarctica.

Our structural interpretation of the transform boundary geometry shows that the ridge and platform margin segments were each subjected to separate thermal influences from two different migrating spreading centres.