What will be an ideal response?
What are the three main types of stress?
a) compression, tension, and shear
b) confining stress, deformation, and folding
c) convergence, divergence, and transform faulting
d) positive, negative, and neutral
e) none of the above
Answer: a) compression, tension, and shear
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