Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Types of stress

There are many different types of stresses for ex:
a) Tension
b) Compression
c) Shearing
Tension is something that pulls on the crust, stretching rocks so that it becomes thinner in the middle. Compression is squeezing rocks until it folds or breaks. Shearing it the stress that pushes a mass of rock in two opposite directions

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