FTP, name this type of fault whose motion is opposite to its apparent displacement, which is characterized by a variable displacement along the fault plane, and whose name refers to the fact that it changes the motion of plates across boundaries.
Most of the basin-governed examples of these structures exhibit localized Riedel shearing. Their motion creates zones occupied by median ridges which separate pull-apart basins, and these become oblique to their motion with increasing speed. First revealed by offsets in the magnetic pattern in seafloor sediments, their most common forms occur along mid-ocean ridges or connect convergent and divergent plate boundaries, and they enable integral motion along spreading centers, a fact pointed out by J. Tuzo Wilson using origami. FTP, name this type of fault whose motion is opposite to its apparent displacement, which is characterized by a variable displacement along the fault plane, and whose name refers to the fact that it changes the motion of plates across boundaries.
Most of the basin-governed examples of these structures exhibit localized Riedel shearing.
transform faults