picture yourker only looking at is a diagram a hot spot and transform fault boundary pieces at the lithosphere grind pass each other and a horizontal fashion they grind past each other in a may that does not destroy the lithosphere most tranform fault boundaries usually join mid ocean ridges transform fault boundaries that are active usually lie between the two offset Ridge segments althongh most transform foult boundaries usually lie in ocean medicines their some that lie on the continental lithosphere one example this is the sun andreas faultin california