A strike-slip fault occurring at the boundary between two plates of the earth's crust.
〔地质〕转换断层
Example sentencesExamples
This is the first time, however, that such tremors have been recorded under a transform fault.
At transform fault boundaries (such as the San Andreas Fault in California which divides the Pacific and North American plates), the plates move or slide horizontally past each other.
The transform fault is represented by the Arakapas fault zone, and would have had a dextral offset and sinistral slip.
In plate tectonics, a transform fault is a strike-slip fault extending throughout the lithosphere and joining any two other plate margins.
Most of these plutonic rocks come from the inside corners of transforms, the strips of crust generated in the angle between the spreading centre and the active transform fault.
To decouple the spreading basin from northern New Zealand, they must have been separated by a transform fault.
Definition of transform fault in US English:
transform fault
noun
Geology
A strike-slip fault occurring at the boundary between two plates of the earth's crust.
〔地质〕转换断层
Example sentencesExamples
The transform fault is represented by the Arakapas fault zone, and would have had a dextral offset and sinistral slip.
This is the first time, however, that such tremors have been recorded under a transform fault.
In plate tectonics, a transform fault is a strike-slip fault extending throughout the lithosphere and joining any two other plate margins.
At transform fault boundaries (such as the San Andreas Fault in California which divides the Pacific and North American plates), the plates move or slide horizontally past each other.
To decouple the spreading basin from northern New Zealand, they must have been separated by a transform fault.
Most of these plutonic rocks come from the inside corners of transforms, the strips of crust generated in the angle between the spreading centre and the active transform fault.