This lateral movement of sea floors past each other is where transform faults are currently active.

With this in mind, Wilson described six types of transform faults:

It may be classified as a dextral intra-arc transform fault.

Here plates gring past each other along transform faults.

The eastern sides of these floodplains are bounded by strike-slip or transform faults.

Pull apart basin caused by offset in a strike slip or transform fault (example: the Dead Sea area).

In Iceland the ridge is somewhat off-set, creating two transform faults where plates move horizontally along each other.

One is in the north of the country and one in the south, the strongest Icelandic earthquakes happen along those transform faults.

Margins that consist of plates slipping past each other are called "transform faults" and account for many of the world's earthquake belts.

Current research indicates that the ridge was formed as a fracture zone and transform fault along the East Pacific Rise.