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My (Penguin) geological dictionary lacks this. But compression is a geophysical force which causes buckling or bending or displacement of a structure, or consolidation of a material (as in metamorphic).
[My local mountain topography is moving about 40mm per year in a SW direction, and abuts the NZ Alpine Fault which is moving NE about 10mm per year. The SW movement is mainly taken up by plastic buckling of the landscape, but eventually there will be catastrophic movement along the Alpine Fault, which has not moved significantly in some 250 tears. In the first photo of Alpine Fault in Wikipedia, you can clearly see some folded mountains. ]
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