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    The document discusses different types of stress that can deform rocks, forming geological structures. It defines compressional, tensional, and shear stress. Compressional stress squeezes rocks, forming folds and reverse faults. Tensional stress stretches rocks, forming normal faults. Shear stress fractures rocks and causes them to slide past each other, forming strike-slip faults. Studying these stress-induced geological structures provides information about how rocks respond to stress.

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    The document discusses different types of stress that can deform rocks, forming geological structures. It defines compressional, tensional, and shear stress. Compressional stress squeezes rocks, forming folds and reverse faults. Tensional stress stretches rocks, forming normal faults. Shear stress fractures rocks and causes them to slide past each other, forming strike-slip faults. Studying these stress-induced geological structures provides information about how rocks respond to stress.

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    The document discusses different types of stress that can deform rocks, forming geological structures. It defines compressional, tensional, and shear stress. Compressional stress squeezes rocks, forming folds and reverse faults. Tensional stress stretches rocks, forming normal faults. Shear stress fractures rocks and causes them to slide past each other, forming strike-slip faults. Studying these stress-induced geological structures provides information about how rocks respond to stress.

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    BATASAN HILLS NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

    SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL


    By the end of the session, you will be able to:

    identify changes in rock


    masses/landforms due to
    stress;

    describe and sketch the explain the importance of


    three types of stress on studying the geologic
    rocks and the resulting structures/features formed
    from stress on rocks.
    geologic feature/structure;
    DEFORMATION
    STRESS
    -forces that deform
    rocks.
    -has 2 types:
    • confining stress
    • differential stress
    Pressure
    is
    Stress in applied
    uniformly unequally in all
    applied in
    directions.
    all
    directions. It has 3 types.
    COMPRESSIONAL
    STRESS
    squeezes rocks

    TENSIONAL
    stretches rocks
    STRESS
    fractures rocks; moves
    SHEAR
    one body of rock past
    STRESS
    another
    COMPRESSIONAL
    STRESS

    • forms folds and


    reverse fault

    reverse fault
    TENSIONAL
    COMPRESSIONAL
    STRESS
    STRESS

    • forms normal
    fault

    normal fault
    SHEAR
    COMPRESSIONAL
    STRESS
    STRESS

    • forms strike-
    slip fault

    strike-slip fault
    COMPRESSIONAL -squeezes rocks and forms
    STRESS folds and reverse fault

    TENSIONAL -stretches rocks and


    STRESS forms normal fault
    -fractures rocks;
    SHEAR moves one body of rock
    STRESS past another and forms
    strike-slip fault
    -squeezes rocks and
    COMPRESSIONAL
    STRESS
    forms folds and
    reverse fault

    TENSIONAL -stretches rocks and


    STRESS forms normal fault

    SHEAR -fractures rocks; moves one


    body of rock past another
    STRESS and forms strike-slip fault
    Rocks deform as a response to stress.
    What can we learn from rocks when it
    comes to responding to stress?

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