The intention of the proposed session is to look at recent advancements in knowledge of tectonic processes leading to the development of transform margins, thermal mechanisms operating during this development and deposystem developing during both the transform margin development and post-breakup transform margin existence. Tectonic processes include fault nucleation and linkage, transform nucleation, deformation focusing and growth, fault interactions of transform segments with their neighbor segments. Deposystems characterization includes all involved processes in their sediment provenance, shelf, slope and oceanic basin. Thermal processes include heat conduction at continental and continent-oceanic transform settings and transform margin settings and thermal effects of geothermal fluids.
The session tries to attract multidisciplinary studies combining various types of geophysical imaging, well data interpretation and numeric simulations.