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.
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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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Wikimedia Foundation- Timescale (category): Seconds
- Timescale (category): Decades
- Timescale (category): Centuries
- Process Type: Tectonic
- Timescale: An individual rupture is seconds; strain accumulates between ruptures over decades to centuries.
- First Proposed Year: 1905
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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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This basin is a pull-apart basin created by strike-slip movement along regional faults starting in the late Oligocene and ending in the late Miocene.
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