GEOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -When oceanic or continental plates slide past each other in opposite directions, or move in the same direction but at different speeds, a transform fault boundary is formed. No new crust is created or subducted, and no volcanoes form, but earthquakes occur along the fault.

Detailed explanation-2: -Plates grinding past each other in opposite directions create faults called transform faults. Powerful earthquakes often strike along these boundaries. The San Andreas Fault is a transform plate boundary that separates the North American Plate from the Pacific Plate.

Detailed explanation-3: -The San Andreas Fault is the transform plate boundary where a thin sliver of western California, as part of the Pacific Plate, slides north-northwestward past the rest of North America.

Detailed explanation-4: -Transform plate boundary, showing plates moving alongside each other. At divergent boundaries, plates move away from each other. At convergent boundaries, plates move towards each other. At transform boundaries, plates move alongside each other.

Detailed explanation-5: -Convergent boundaries, where two plates are moving toward each other, are of three types, depending on the type of crust present on either side of the boundary-oceanic or continental. The types are ocean-ocean, ocean-continent, and continent-continent.