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What is the force that pulls rock apart?
Tensile stress.
What is falting rock?
Faulting is caused by stress in the rock layers, the stress can break and crack the rock causing a fault. There are two types of faults a normal fault and a reverse fault.
What are manifestations of stress in rocks?
cracks == In addition to cracks: faulting, metamorphism to new rock types, earthquakes, tilting, and folding.
Can stress lead to MRSA infections?
Stress won't lead to a MRSA infection.
What type of stress and what type of fault caused the Chilean earthquake?
Compressive stress which led to thrust faulting at a convergent boundary where subduction is occurring. Please see the related question for more information.
Can stress lead to murder?
It often does if the stress is great enough.
What kind of tectonic stress causes fault-block mountains?
faulting causes large blocks of the Earth's crust to drop down relative to other blocks
How are folding and faulting how are they different?
How they are different: Folded rock forms when tersion makes the lithosphere break into normal faults. How they are the same: They both refer to the stress in the Earth.
What can up and down faulting also be called?
Reverse Faulting.
What lead to tension or frustration?
Stress.
Overworking oneself can lead to which of these?
stress
How is faulting related to earthquakes volcanoes and tsunamis?
Faulting occurs in all three of these
