<p>The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Andreas_Fault" rel="nofollow noreferrer">San Andreas Fault system</a> is an excellent example of what can happen in an oceanic–continental transform fault.</p>

<p>It's also important to remember that plate boundaries are usually never 100% transform-like and are at an angle. This would cause either compression or extension, depending on the local geometry. A <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pull-apart_basin" rel="nofollow noreferrer">pull apart basin</a> is an example of something like this. For instance, the dead sea is a basin on a transform fault between Israel and Jordan, and a few hundreds kilometres to the north, on the same transform, you have mountains between Lebanon and Syria.</p>

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<p>This could be needed in the Worldbuilding stack exchange instead of here, but when I was mapping out the movements of the tectonic plates, then there's a few locations where oceanic and continental plates are moving parallel to one another in opposite directions, creating transform boundaries.</p>

<p>I can't find anything regarding the formations that would arise from this, though I expect that something along the lines of cliffs might form, though this is pure speculation. What formations should I expect?</p>

<p>And as a side-note, I also found many cases of when one plate is moving parallel to the boundary, but the other plate is moving either convergent or divergent of that boundary. What formations should I expect from these as well?</p>

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What formations are to be expected to develop between the transform boundaries of oceanic and continental plates?
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# What formations are to be expected to develop between the transform boundaries of oceanic and continental plates?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2018-11-10)

This could be needed in the Worldbuilding stack exchange instead of here, but when I was mapping out the movements of the tectonic plates, then there's a few locations where oceanic and continental plates are moving parallel to one another in opposite directions, creating transform boundaries.

I can't find anything regarding the formations that would arise from this, though I expect that something along the lines of cliffs might form, though this is pure speculation. What formations should I expect?

And as a side-note, I also found many cases of when one plate is moving parallel to the boundary, but the other plate is moving either convergent or divergent of that boundary. What formations should I expect from these as well?

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### Answer by username_1 on 2018-11-10. Score: 1

The [San Andreas Fault system](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Andreas_Fault) is an excellent example of what can happen in an oceanic–continental transform fault.

It's also important to remember that plate boundaries are usually never 100% transform-like and are at an angle. This would cause either compression or extension, depending on the local geometry. A [pull apart basin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pull-apart_basin) is an example of something like this. For instance, the username_0 sea is a basin on a transform fault between Israel and Jordan, and a few hundreds kilometres to the north, on the same transform, you have mountains between Lebanon and Syria.


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