what type of fault does a divergent boundary have
Divergent boundary
Divergent boundaries are typified in the oceanic lithosphere by the rifts of the oceanic ridge system , including the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and the East Pacific Rise , and in the continental lithosphere by rift valleys such as the famous East African Great Rift Valley . Divergent boundaries can create massive fault zones in the oceanic ridge system . Spreading is generally not uniform , so where spreading rates of adjacent ridge blocks are different , massive transform faults occur . These are the fracture zones , many bearing names , that are a major source of submarine earthquakes . A sea floor map will show a rather strange pattern of blocky structures that are separated by linear features perpendicular to the ridge axis . If one views the sea floor between the fracture zones as conveyor belts carrying the ridge on each side of the rift away from the spreading center the action becomes clear . Crest depths of the old ridges , parallel to the current spreading center , will be older and deeper ... ( from thermal contraction and subsidence ) . 
Divergent boundaries are typified in the oceanic lithosphere by the rifts of the oceanic ridge system , including the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and the East Pacific Rise , and in the continental lithosphere by rift valleys such as the famous East African Great Rift Valley . Divergent boundaries can create massive fault zones in the oceanic ridge system . Spreading is generally not uniform , so where spreading rates of adjacent ridge blocks are different , massive transform faults occur . These are the fracture zones , many bearing names , that are a major source of submarine earthquakes . A sea floor map will show a rather strange pattern of blocky structures that are separated by linear features perpendicular to the ridge axis . If one views the sea floor between the fracture zones as conveyor belts carrying the ridge on each side of the rift away from the spreading center the action becomes clear . Crest depths of the old ridges , parallel to the current spreading center , will be older and deeper ... ( from thermal contraction and subsidence ) .
Divergent boundaries can create massive fault zones in the oceanic ridge system. These are the fracture zones that are a major source of submarine earthquakes.
Divergent boundaries can create massive fault zones in the oceanic ridge system . These are the fracture zones , many bearing names , that are a major source of submarine earthquakes .
Divergent boundaries can create massive fault zones in the oceanic ridge system. Spreading is generally not uniform, so where spreading rates of adjacent ridge blocks are different, massive transform faults occur.  These are the fracture zones that are a major source of submarine earthquakes.
Divergent boundaries can create massive fault zones in the oceanic ridge system . Spreading is generally not uniform , so where spreading rates of adjacent ridge blocks are different , massive transform faults occur . These are the fracture zones , many bearing names , that are a major source of submarine earthquakes .