Solution

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At latitude and longitude , . Motion is . A meridian boundary has horizontal normal , so its across-boundary velocity is
For a transform fault this must vanish along the whole meridian, not only at an isolated point. Thus . Select the solution in the western hemisphere:
The other solution is the antipodal meridian in the eastern hemisphere. Geometrically, the transform meridian is in a great-circle plane perpendicular to the Euler angular velocity vector. Its outgoing tangent direction at either pole, expressed in the fixed axes, is .

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