Physical Processes
Strike-Slip Faulting
Tectonics and Volcanism
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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 Sources
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