A plate boundary at which relative motion is tangential to the boundary. It neither creates nor consumes lithosphere in the ideal kinematic model. The admissible junction velocities form a line parallel to the fault through either adjacent plate velocity in velocity space.
The seafloor continuation beyond the actively slipping ridge-to-ridge transform fault. Its two sides can differ in age without continuing relative plate-boundary slip.

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