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A transform fault boundary if I'm not mistaken. The San Andreas fault is actually a "transform" fault, which means that the movement of the plates is a side-to-side movement past each other. The Pacific plate, relatively speaking, is moving north and the North American plate is moving south. This means that the very western coast of California is sliding north past the rest of California.

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