transform fault system

A transform fault system is a network of strike-slip plate boundaries where tectonic plates slide horizontally past each other along fractures in the Earth's crust, often linking segments of mid-ocean ridges or other plate boundaries.

Observed surface forms (2)

• plate boundary fault ×2
• geological fault system ×1

Instances (6)

• Caledonian fault system via concept surface "geological fault system"
• Charlie-Gibbs Fracture Zone
• San Jacinto Fault Zone via concept surface "plate boundary fault"
• Sovanco Fracture Zone
• Cobb Offset
• Enriquillo–Plantain Garden fault zone via concept surface "plate boundary fault"