Which phenomenon primarily causes stream displacement when lateral fault motion occurs along a transform boundary?

💡 Explanation

When stress overcomes friction, strike-slip faulting causes the land on either side of a a transform plate boundary to horizontally fracture with a sharp offset. Therefore the ground surface shears linearly in the strike-slip direction rather than via plastic flow, erosion or deposition which alter topographic structures.

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