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Q: When extension pulls a rock apart it creates a?
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What is the Stress force that pulls rock apart?

Tensile stress.


What is the force that pulls rock apart?

Tensile stress.


How ice wedging can break apart?

Ice wedging can break apart rocks when water seeps in cracks of roads or rocks and continues freezes and thaws until the rock eventually creates a pot hole


What happens liquid water gets in cracks and rocs and freezes?

The ice expands as it freezes - which creates weak points in the rock, causing it to break apart.


What types of fault is formed when plates diverge or pull apart?

Tension in Earth's crust pulls rock apart, causing hanging walls. In a normal fault, the fault is at an angle, so one block of rock lies above the fault while the other block lies below the fault. The block of rock that lies above is called the hanging wall. The rock that lies below is called the footwall.


What type of fault is formed when plates diverge or apart?

Tension in Earth's crust pulls rock apart, causing hanging walls. In a normal fault, the fault is at an angle, so one block of rock lies above the fault while the other block lies below the fault. The block of rock that lies above is called the hanging wall. The rock that lies below is called the footwall.


What pulls rock and sediments downhill?

gravity


The force that pulls rock and soil down slopes?

Gravity


What do you call space rock that earth pulls into its atmosphere?

meteor


Gravity pulls rock or sediment down slopes?

yes


When compression pushes together it creates a?

What do you think it creates?? it dependes what type of rock it is but if its metamorphic rock, say, limestone, when its compressed it turns into marble


What is the relationship between gravity and the movement of rock fragments?

Gravity pulls at the rock fragments causing them to move.