Type of Stress

Associated with Plate

Boundaries
Reporter:
June Mark Misa
Christine Joy Dela Garcia
 What is Stress in
rocks?
Stress is the force applied to a rock. Plates experience

stress when they collide, move apart, or slide past each

other. Plates moving on a rounded surface experience

stress. Stress happens to rocks on a smaller scale, too.

Local movements can cause stress in rocks.

There are Three Types of
Stress
 Tensional
stress pulls rocks apart.
Tension causes rocks to
lengthen or break apart.

Compressional Shearing
stress squeezes rocks together. stress happens when forces
Compression causes
A rocks to fold or slide past each other in
fracture. opposite directions.

Stress caused these rocks to fold.

1. What three types of stress?
 CORRECT ANSWER

• Compressional Stress
• Tensional Stress
• Shearing Stress
2. What type of stress would you
find at a transform fault?
 CORRECT ANSWER

• Shearing Stress
3. What type of stress would you
find at a subduction zone?
 CORRECT ANSWER

• Compressional Stress
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