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Fig. 4.109
The San Andreas fault is one of the most studied examples of an active strike slip fault system. It marks the long onshore portion of
a complicated system of oceanic transform faults which displace the East Pacific Rise progressively north east in the Gulf of California and
which is causing the general motion of peninsula and coastal southern California in the same direction. As indicated, the sense of motion is
dextral strike slip.
DST
SR
Arabian
plate
African
plate
Fig. 4.110
Transform faults in the Gulf of Aden between the Arabian and Somalian plates are related to sea floor spreading. The Death Sea
transcurrent (DST) fault is an example of a transform plate boundary separating the Arabian plate from African plate in a continental context.
EAR - East African Rift, SR - Sinai Rift.
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