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Compression the reduction in volume (causing an increase in pressure) of the fuel mixture in an internal combustion engine before ignition.
Tension the state of being stretched tight.
Stress pressure or tension exerted on a material object.
Strike Slip Fault a fault in which rock strata are displaced mainly in a horizontal direction, parallel to the line of the fault.
Normal Fault Normal faults occur where two blocks of rock are pulled apart, as by tension. Compare reverse fault.
Reverse Fault Reverse faults occur where two blocks of rock are forced together by compression. Compare normal fault. See Note and illustration at fault.
Shearing cut the wool off (a sheep or other animal).
San Andreas Fault is a continental transform fault that extends roughly 1300 km through California.
Plateau an area of relatively level high ground.
Hanging Wall the block of rock that lies above an inclined fault or an ore body.
Footwall the block of rock that lies on the underside of an inclined fault or of a mineral deposit.
Anticline a ridge-shaped fold of stratified rock in which the strata slope downward from the crest.
Syncline a trough or fold of stratified rock in which the strata slope upward from the axis.
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