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What type of plate boundary has plates sliding past each other

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Transform fault plate boundary

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The transform fault plate boundaries are plate boundaries where there's two or more tectonic plates that slide past each other. This type of plate boundary occurs where there's tectonic plates that move in opposite direction, but they touch each other only slightly on the fringes, thus slowly moving past each other. Even thought here's no real collision, still there's immense pressure and stress on the crust because of the friction, which results in common earthquake activities. A trademark feature of this type of boundary are the faults. The faults are created because of the pressure on the crust that creates cracks on it, varying in depth, width, and distance. The faults are always parallel to the plate boundary, thus they give us a nice representation of the plate boundary and its directions.

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