underdrag
cataclastic
shear
geopressure
metamorphic rock
geopressured
Hooke's law
slickenside
choss
sheeting
abrasion
fault
grinding
detrition
attrition
transtension
mechanical stress
fracking
rockburst
geostress
overstrain
geobarometry
paleostress
metamorphism
lithostatic
zobtenite
diapir
breaking point
rheological lithosphere
fold
autoclastic
folding
rockiness
strain burst
intrusion
macrocrack
overstress
glaciotectonics
competence
chossy
microfracturing
coefficient of elasticity
modulus of elasticity
twist
elastic modulus
thrust
nappe
rigid
blind thrust fault
taut
fissure
skew
smear
migmatization
tectonization
isostasy
yield strain
Young's modulus
clastic rock
blastesis
overextend
cryostatic
bouldered
stark
stony
expulsion
mobilization
factor of safety
extrusion
adesite
codeformational
overthrust
tensioned
telogenesis
bouldery
autolith
safety factor
hornfels
hornstone
rocky
tensile strain
rigidness
endomorphism
rupestral
induration
overstiff
tillite
regional metamorphism
virginite
saxigenous
fatigue
overtightness
rock flour
weathering
prestressed concrete
stratification

English words for 'The tensile stress exerted by an overthrust rock mass upon overlying rocks which themselves are not under compressive thrusting stress and therefore tend to be stretched and broken by normal faulting.'

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