scenice
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- when an ocenic plate slides down
- ridge push
- when a rock changes its shape due to stress
- deformation
- amount of force that is put on a given material
- stress
- when two tectonic plates collide
- convergent boundry
- the haging wall moves down relative to the footwall
- normal fault
- stress that occurs when two tectonic plates collide
- compression
- when a vertical stress acts on a rock
- monocline
- when two tectonic plates move away from one another
- divergent boundry
- stress that occurs when two tectonic plates pull apart from each other
- tension
- sometimes has a subduction zone
- convergent boundry
- when an oceanic plate sinks and pulls the rest of the tectonic plate
- slab pull
- the surface along which rocks break and slide past each other
- fault
- opposing forces cause rock to break and move horizontally
- strike-slip fault
- the haging wall moves up relative to the footwall
- reverse fault
- when two tectonic plates slide past each other
- transform boundry