Buckling of earth crust leads to ________
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Answer:Stress causes the build up of strain, which causes the deformation of rocks and the Earth's crust. Compressional stresses cause a rock to shorten. Tensional stresses cause a rock to elongate, or pull apart.
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The writer derives formulas for plastic buckling and shows how development of geosynclines requires 20 to 40 million years of relatively quiet evolution until, with continuing compressive stress, the catastrophic stage is reached which can bring about great folding and overthrusting of less competent surface layers. During this entire process the plastic part of the crust is thickening. The phenomenon has greater velocity in the ocean than in the continents. The result of this difference of velocity is that a geosyncline on the border between continent and ocean must be asymmetric; the continent appears to override the ocean floor.
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