BATASAN HILLS NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

 By the end of the session, you will be able to:

identify changes in rock

masses/landforms due to
stress;

describe and sketch the explain the importance of

three types of stress on studying the geologic
rocks and the resulting structures/features formed
from stress on rocks.
geologic feature/structure;
DEFORMATION
STRESS
-forces that deform
rocks.
-has 2 types:
• confining stress
• differential stress
 Pressure
is
Stress in applied
uniformly unequally in all
applied in
directions.
all
directions. It has 3 types.
COMPRESSIONAL
STRESS
squeezes rocks

TENSIONAL
stretches rocks
STRESS
fractures rocks; moves
SHEAR
one body of rock past
STRESS
another
COMPRESSIONAL
STRESS

• forms folds and

reverse fault

reverse fault
 TENSIONAL
COMPRESSIONAL
STRESS
STRESS

• forms normal
fault

normal fault
 SHEAR
COMPRESSIONAL
STRESS
STRESS

• forms strike-
slip fault

strike-slip fault
COMPRESSIONAL -squeezes rocks and forms
STRESS folds and reverse fault

TENSIONAL -stretches rocks and

STRESS forms normal fault
-fractures rocks;
SHEAR moves one body of rock
STRESS past another and forms
strike-slip fault
 -squeezes rocks and
COMPRESSIONAL
STRESS
forms folds and
reverse fault

TENSIONAL -stretches rocks and

STRESS forms normal fault

SHEAR -fractures rocks; moves one

body of rock past another
STRESS and forms strike-slip fault
Rocks deform as a response to stress.
What can we learn from rocks when it
comes to responding to stress?