What boundary is the San Andreas Fault?

The San Andreas Fault is a continental transform fault that extends roughly 1,200 kilometers (750 mi) through California. It forms the tectonic boundary between the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate, and its motion is right-lateral strike-slip (horizontal).Click to see full answer. Also know, is the San Andreas Fault divergent or convergent?Divergent faults create gaps or sags. When plate boundaries are convergent there is always a subduction zone. When divergent, they usually open valleys on land and oceanic ridges like the Mid Atlantic Ridge. The San Andreas Fault is a place where two tectonic plates touch, the North American and Pacific Plates.Also, how was San Andreas fault formed? The San Andreas Fault was born about 30 million years ago in California, when the Pacific Plate and the North America plate first met. Before then, another oceanic plate, the Farallon plate, was disappearing beneath North America at a subduction zone, another type of plate boundary. Besides, why is San Andreas Fault a transform boundary? As the North American plate encountered the Pacific plate the relative motion between them caused the convergent boundary along this portion of the margin of North America to evolve into a transform boundary. This relative motion is expressed along the San Andreas transform fault as right-lateral strike-slip offset.Where does San Andreas fault line run?The San Andreas Fault is the sliding boundary between the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate. It slices California in two from Cape Mendocino to the Mexican border. San Diego, Los Angeles and Big Sur are on the Pacific Plate. San Francisco, Sacramento and the Sierra Nevada are on the North American Plate.