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transform fault

Area where the earth's lithospheric plates move in opposite but parallel directions along a fracture (fault) in the lithosphere. Compare convergent plate boundary, divergent plate boundary.

Subject: 
Environmental Science [1]
Vocabulary: 
Chapter 10 - Geology: Processes, Hazards, and Soils [2]
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