A transform plate boundary occurs when two plates slide past each other, horizontally. A well-known transform plate boundary is the San Andreas Fault, which is responsible for many of California's earthquakes. A single tectonic plate can have multiple types of plate boundaries with the other plates that surround it.

What do transform boundaries create?

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 the motion of transform plate boundary?

A transform fault is a plate boundary along which the relative motion between the two plates is parallel to the strike of the fault and is geometrically the arc of a small circle about the pole of rotation between two plates.