A transform fault is ________
A) a dip-slip fault connecting an anticline with a syncline
B) the rift bounding fault on a mid-ocean ridge
C) a reverse fault that steepens into a thrust fault
D) a strike-slip fault that forms the boundary between tectonic plates
D
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