21. During this event, small scale earthquakes concentrated narrowly and linearly around the transform fault planes. 22. In the extreme south a major transform fault separates Tierra del Fuego from the small Scotia Plate. 23. The merger converted the trench to a transform fault and turned off the volcanoes to the west. 24. These length changes are dependent on which type of faults or tectonic structures connect with the transform fault . 25. Transform faults are also referred to as conservative plate boundaries, as lithosphere is neither created nor destroyed.26. Transform faults are plate boundaries, meaning that on either side of the fault is a different plate.27. During the spreading centers and transform faults , beginning with the Brawley Seismic Zone in the Imperial Valley. 28. The Great Glen is a transform fault which divides the Grampian Mountains to the southeast from the Northwest Highlands. 29. The MAR is intersected by two perpendicular ridges : the Azores Gibraltar Transform Fault , the boundary between the 16�N. 30. Transform faults are not limited to oceanic crust and spreading centers; many transform faults are located on continental margins.