TYPES OF MASTERâS. The general description of a masterâs degree is an academic degree obtained in a higher postgraduate education, which usually takes two years to complete. It is a specialised graduate programme focused on gaining practical knowledge in a specific area.
San Andreas Fault. The San Andreas Fault is the transform boundary between the North American Plate and the Pacific Plate. During the 1906 San Francisco earthquake the northern section of the San Andreas Fault slipped northward along the fault from San Juan Bautista to Cape Mendocino, a total of 296 miles (477km).
The zone between two plates sliding horizontally past one another is called a transform fault boundary or simply a transform boundary. A well-known example is the San Andreas Fault in California. For 10 million years, the Pacific Plate has been grinding north horizontally past the western moving North American Plate at an average rate of about 5 cm per year.