A new view on plate tectonics Transform faults play active role in shaping ocean floors Date: March 17, 2021 Source: Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel (GEOMAR) Summary: Along submarine ...

The observations suggest that morphological contrasts between adjacent segments can extend for all or part of a ridge segment, with more persistent differences across transform faults (for example ...

Summary: Continental transform faults evolve when two plates slide along each other. The most prominent examples are the San Andreas Fault in California and the North Anatolian Fault in Turkey.

The contrast with transform faults could be a telling observation. It may finally allow us to figure out why transform faults are so common at ridges, and why they are almost invariably found ...