Which geologic outcome primarily occurs along a transform plate boundary?

💡 Explanation

At transform boundaries, plates slide past each other horizontally because shear stress builds up, leading to release of energy as shallow-focus earthquakes through strike-slip motion. Therefore earthquakes form, rather than volcanism, deep-focus events, or rifts which need different tectonic settings.

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