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a major geologic discontinuity or suture marking the juncture of lithospheric plates that have been joined by plate tectonics.
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Divergent plate boundaries are locations where plates are moving away from one another.
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A transform fault or transform boundary, also known as conservative plate boundary since these faults neither create nor destroy lithosphere, is a type of fault whose relative motion is predominantly horizontal in either sinistral or dextral direction.