7.8: Putting It Together
SUMMARY
In this section, you learned the following:
- The magnitude of forces needed to fold and deform the Earth’s crust
- The difference between stress and strain and what they can produce
- The different types of forces acting on the Earth: tension, compression, and shearing
- The different types of folds and forces associated with them
- The different types of faults and forces associated with them
- What the outcomes are of crustal deformation
Contributors and Attributions
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Original content from Kimberly Schulte (Columbia Basin College) and supplemented by Lumen Learning . The content on this page is copyrighted under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.