Strike-slip faulting is horizontal motion in which the two blocks on either side of a near-vertical fault plane slide past one another laterally, with little or no vertical displacement. A transform fault is a strike-slip fault that accommodates plate motion at a plate boundary itself, the San Andreas Fault in California and the North Anatolian Fault in Turkey being the best-known examples, each capable of producing large, shallow, highly destructive earthquakes as stress accumulated by slow plate motion releases in sudden ruptures. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Process Type TimescaleAn individual rupture is seconds; strain accumulates between ruptures over decades to centuries. 1 First Proposed Year Timescale
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It contains three small pull-apart basins, the Elat Deep, Aragonese Deep and Dakar Deep, formed between four left lateral strike-slip fault segments.
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