Where are all transform boundaries?
Most transform plate boundaries occur in the oceanic lithosphere where they connect segments of ridges (spreading centers). The image above is of part of the Pacific Ocean floor, lookong toward Central America.
What is most common at a transform boundary?
Transform boundaries represent the borders found in the fractured pieces of the Earth’s crust where one tectonic plate slides past another to create an earthquake fault zone. Linear valleys, small ponds, stream beds split in half, deep trenches, and scarps and ridges often mark the location of a transform boundary.
What is found near transform boundaries?
The grinding action between the plates at a transform plate boundary results in shallow earthquakes, large lateral displacement of rock, and a broad zone of crustal deformation. Perhaps nowhere on Earth is such a landscape more dramatically displayed than along the San Andreas Fault in western California.
