- Explain what is a transform plate boundary
A transform boundary are places where tectonic plates slide past each other. From a geological point of view transform boundaries are meant as a half-movement. Tectonic displacements do not affect the whole plate but a certain length, sometimes only certain segments cross mid-ocean ridges. Another feature of transform plates is that they join or separate the most heterogeneous patterns in the ocean and in the transition to it from the continental zone.
- Give some facts about plate boundary
The largest offset segments of the mid-ocean ridges, as it turns out, has been programmed for another initial stage of formation of a young ocean. The transform channels are linked to the mechanism using the new, emerging forms of the ocean to the old continental structures. The implementation of the push in the equatorial regions of the Atlantic, had taken a whole system of powerful transformation where middle spreading ridge is broken into several smaller segments, not contacting with each other and separated by hundreds of miles.
The closure of transform plates often run into continents. In the modern era, this ancient parts are not active. Often transform breaks affect the modern coastline, wiggling it. Transform boundary do another job where plates become a corridor, on which deep-rooted water that is isolated on both sides of the mid-Atlantic ocean ridge communicates the earth.
- Use nowadays example to show what plate boundary is.
“The San Andreas Fault is the transform boundary between the North American Plate and the Pacific Plate. During the 1906 San Francisco earthquake the northern section of the San Andreas Fault slipped northward along the fault from San Juan Bautista to Cape Mendocino, a total of 296 miles.”
San Andreas is a rare example of how transform plate boundary defines the tectonic conditions at the edge of the continent. the ocean floor affects the area of influence of transform boundary, where boundary's dismembered on individual segments of the mid-ocean ridges, shifting them laterally relative to each other for many miles away. In this case, transform plates - it is carved in to stone history that push ocean floor and do the continental drift.
P.S This text is used in presentation.
Reference: “Transform Boundary” Kids-Fun-Science.com, Myrna Martin. 12 October 2014. Retrieved from http://www.kids-fun-science.com/transform-boundary.html
Works cited:
- http://www.ksbw.com/politics/governor-signs-calif-quake-warning-system-bill/22102770
- http://www.passmyexams.co.uk/GCSE/physics/transform-boundaries.html
- http://www.nps.gov/pore/naturescience/faults.htm
