Earth Sciences 2240F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: North American Plate, Radiocarbon Dating, Alluvium
20 Apr 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Chapter 6: other earthquakes: transform and intraplate faults. In the category of others , earthquakes on transform faults get all the press, but very occasionally there"s an interesting earthquake within a continental plate that"s just categorized as an intraplate" quake. We"ll start off this chapter with a consideration of earthquakes on transform faults, and conclude with a shorter section on intraplate quakes. In looking at the various types of faults in chapter 4, we saw one possibility was the transform fault, where one block of rock moved laterally past another. In chapter 3 we saw that transform faults are an inevitable result of shifting lithosphere segments around on a sphere. Perhaps that"s best shown by the myriad of transform faults that bound segments of the sphere adjacent to the spreading boundary represented by the mid-atlantic ridge (fig. In fact, most transform faults are found on ocean floors.
