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The earth's crust is not stress

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Three types of stress that occer in earths crust?

Compression Stress Tension Stress Shearing Stress


What causes stress earths crust?

The movement in earths plates create powerful forces that pull or squeeze the rock in the crust.


How does stress in the crust change earths crust?

it means earthquakes will happen more often


What type of stress causes the earths crust to become thinner?

Tension


What forces squeezes or pull the rock in earths crust?

Stress forces squeeze or pull the rock in the Earth's crust.


How does stress change earths crust?

It causes it to deform - this deformation is called "strain".


How do motions affect Earth's crust?

Plate motions produce stress in Earths crust that leads to faults, mountain building, and earthquakes.


What occurs when rocks layers bend due to stress in the Earths crust?

I found that folding happens


What process causes stress in Earths crust?

Plate tectonics, the movement of the large pieces of the earth's crust, give rise to great stress along the boundaries of the plates. Wikipedia has a post on plate tectonics, and a link is provided.


Earths crust is part of the?

The earths crust is a part of the outermost layer.


How do you get silicon out of earths crust?

Silicon is a mixture of the minerals of the earths crust. so.... silicon isn't something from the earths crust. -thanks for your question.


What is the stress of uplifting earths crust?

It can be the cause of folding, faulting, mountains, volcanoes, earthquakes, and rifts.