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Stresses the squeeze rocks or anything else are compressive.
The squeezing together of rocks by stress is called compression. In scientific terms Compression is when a force called stress pushes rock/squeezes rock together until it folds or breaks.
The force that squeezes a rock until it folds or breaks is called compression. When enough stress builds up in a rock, the rock can break, and create a fault.
Together the crust and upper mantle make the lithosphere.
compression
Stress forces squeeze or pull the rock in the Earth's crust.
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Plate Tectonics
Stresses the squeeze rocks or anything else are compressive.
Compression
Sand squeezed together, and aged, can make a pearl.
the equator squeezes it in and it gets so tight that the ground starts to crack and break. +++ No it doesn't. Compression comes in continental collision.
The force is created by the self weight of the overlying material.
Stress forces squeeze or pull the rock in the Earth's crust.
an earthquake