Japan’s dealing with a single convergent boundary, but San Francisco is staring down multiple faults, and the ones that matter are transform faults.

They represent the least well-studied of the three major plate boundaries, which include divergent boundaries, like East Africa, where plates move apart forming new crust; and convergent ...

These convergent boundaries also occur where a plate of ocean dives, in a process called subduction, under a landmass. As the overlying plate lifts up, it also forms mountain ranges.

These compressional forces cause the hanging wall to move upward relative to the footwall. Reverse faults are common at convergent plate boundaries, where tectonic plates collide.

Ask them near what plate boundary (convergent, divergent, and transform) one can expect to see this kind of fault. Explain to them that earth scientists distinguish between two types of ...

The boundary where the two plates meet is called a convergent boundary. Deep trenches appear at these boundaries, caused by the oceanic plate bending downward into the Earth.

Crustal brines at an oceanic transform fault: New research explores geological processes along plate boundaries by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution ...

This sudden jerk creates an earthquake. The San Andreas Fault is undoubtedly the most famous transform boundary in the world. To the west of the fault is the Pacific plate, which is moving northwest.