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A New Class of Faults and Their Bearing on Continental Drift

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  • In J. Tuzo Wilson

    His paper entitled A New Class of Faults and Their Bearing on Continental Drift (1965) introduced the concept of the transform fault. Whereas previous theories of continental drift had conceived of plates as either moving closer together (convergent plates) or further apart (divergent), Wilson asserted that a third…

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