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Contents of 12.5 What is the evidence that plates slide past one another at transform plate boundaries?

12.5 What is the evidence that plates slide past one another at transform plate boundaries?

Fig 12.29

• What earthquakes on oceanic transforms show
• Transforms that occur across spreading ridges are quite common, and form a dynamic system in conjunction with one another. Earthquakes occur only along the transform between spreading ridge segments.