Contributor Smithsonian Institution

Update
10-06-2006
Content Type
Student Resource
Grade Level
Seventh grade, Eighth grade
Object Type
PDF
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Transform Faults – Where Plates Scrape Horizontally Past Each Other describes how plates slide past other along transform plate boundaries. The San Andreas fault system in California is used as an example. The page includes a historical photograph with caption describing the aftermath of the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco.