GEOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Transform boundaries are where plates slide past one another. Also called faults, they usually happen where two ocean or two continental plates meet. They are most common on the ocean floor. These plates are colliding with huge force, causing one to slowly grind over, under or alongside the other.

Detailed explanation-2: -Transform boundaries typically produce large, shallow-focus earthquakes. Although earthquakes do occur in the central regions of plates, these regions do not usually have large earthquakes.

Detailed explanation-3: -About 80% of earthquakes occur where plates are pushed together, called convergent boundaries. Another form of convergent boundary is a collision where two continental plates meet head-on.

Detailed explanation-4: -A transform boundary causes a fault between two plates of the lithosphere, which will slide past one another. This motion does not create or destroy crust and will cause earthquakes, but no volcanoes. A transform boundary occurs when two tectonic plates move past one another.

Detailed explanation-5: -A transform fault (Wilson, 1965) is a strike-slip fault forming a plate boundary, thus cutting the entire lithosphere that keeps a permanent record of its deformations.