A transform plate boundary is characterized by ________.
A) composite volcanoes on the edge of a plate and shield volcanoes on the adjacent plate
B) two, converging, oceanic plates meeting head-on and piling up into a mid-ocean ridge
C) a divergent boundary where the continental plate changes to an oceanic plate
D) a deep, vertical strike-slip fault along which two plates slide past one another in opposite directions
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Q53: Deep-hypocentre earthquakes are associated with _ plate
Q54: The _ were formed in the late
Q55: Most transform faults are located _.
A)along the
Q56: The chaotic accumulation of deformed oceanic sediments,
Q57: The Aleutian Islands occur at _.
A)an ocean-ocean
Q59: Plates are sliding past one another horizontally
Q60: _ plate boundaries have the largest magnitude
Q61: The magnetic orientation and age of different
Q62: In detail, there is no geologic evidence
Q63: Which of the following most accurately describes
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