The San Andreas Fault zone in California is an example of_______.

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The San Andreas Fault zone in California is a transform plate boundary, where two plates (the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate) are sliding past each other. It is not a divergent plate boundary (where two plates are moving apart), an ocean-continent collision (where an oceanic plate is subducting beneath a continental plate), or a continental rift (where two plates are moving away from each other and causing a rift zone).

The San Andreas Fault Zone in California Is an Example