| As these triple junctions migrated away from each other a transform plate boundary lengthened between them. |
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| The Coast Ranges are therefore characterized by folds and thrust faults nearly parallel to the transform plate boundary. |
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| In some locations two plates slide horizontally past one another, forming what is known as a transform plate boundary. |
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| Throughout late Cenozoic time, the transform plate boundary grew more extensive, as larger areas of the Pacific Plate came into contact with the western edge of North America. |
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| The earthquake ruptured the San Sebastian system fault, one of the many structures along the transform plate boundary that separates South America from the Caribbean plate. |
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| From 95 Ma, the age of subducted oceanic crust decreased progressively until arrival of the Pacific-Farallon spreading center led to termination of subduction and conversion to a transform plate boundary. |
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