Googling 'Transform Fault' gives all sorts of confusing definitions
for the term — and Philip Kearey's 1996 'New Penguin Dictionary of
Geology' gives the following:
"transform fault: A special form of strike-slip fault which joins the
ends of constructive and destructive plate margins." What on earth is
a student to make of that?
Malcolm
On 9 Jun 2006, at 14:31, Musson, Roger MW wrote:
> Having said that, I suddenly recall that it is normal practice to
> refer to the Dead Sea Transform.
>
> Roger Musson
>
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>> As for transform faults, I would normally only use this term
>> in the sense given below for spreading centres. Otherwise I
>> would normally use "strike-slip".
>>
>> Roger Musson
>>
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