List examples of geologic structures resulting from tension, compression, and shear

What will be an ideal response?


Horsts and grabens develop from tensional stress, an anticline from compressional stress, and strike-slip faults from shear stress.

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Poverty can increase environmental degradation; however, environmental degradation can increase poverty. Why is this so?

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Strike-slip faults are common along ________ plate boundaries

Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

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Which of the following is TRUE of the 1884 international treaty establishing the prime meridian (0°)?

A) No consensus was met at the 1884 treaty, putting off the decision until a 1907 treaty was passed. B) Each country selected its own prime meridian for their marine maps. C) The United States designated the Washington meridian for land maps and marine maps. D) The Greenwich meridian was established as the prime meridian by the treaty.

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Galileo observed several features using the telescope. Which one of the following did he not discover?

A) Jupiter's four largest moons B) sunspots C) the two moons of Mars D) phases of Venus

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