write a short note on transform boundary.
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The Earth is like a pool covered with floats of different sizes and shapes that we call tectonic plates. Although it seems like the Earth's crust is huge and immovable, the ground is actually moving all the time as it floats on a sea of hot magma. And just like with a pool, the floats sometimes randomly hit each other. They can move towards each other, move away from each other, and slide alongside each other. A transform boundary (or conservative boundary) is where two of the tectonic plates slide alongside each other. When this happens, the scraping of the two plates causes earthquakes.
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A transform fault or transform boundary is a plate boundary where the motion is predominantly horizontal. It ends abruptly and is connected to another transform, a spreading ridge, or a subduction zone.
Most of these faults are hidden in the deep ocean, where they offset divergent boundaries in short zigzags resulting from seafloor spreading, the best-known (and most destructive) being those on land at the margins of continental tectonic plates A transform fault is the only type of strike-slip fault that is classified as a plate boundary.
Most of these faults are hidden in the deep ocean, where they offset divergent boundaries in short zigzags resulting from seafloor spreading, the best-known (and most destructive) being those on land at the margins of continental tectonic plates A transform fault is the only type of strike-slip fault that is classified as a plate boundary.
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