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Geography, 20.07.2019 06:10 cofran

What is the difference between a fracture zone and transform fault? a transform fault is a crack, but a fracture zone is a hole in the crust a transform fault is perpendicular to the mid-ocean ridge, but a fracture zone is not. they are two names for the same feature, a break in the plate formed by a slip at a transform plate boundary a transform fault has strike-slip motion in reverse of the direction that the plates move apart at the mid-ocean ridge, but a fracture zone has the opposite sense of motion. a transform has an active fault, separating two plates, whereas a fracture zone is just the “scar” formed on one plate by the transform fault

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