Stress in Earth's Crust

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• What type of stress is dominantly associated with transform plate boundaries?
• What is shear?
• What is strain?
• What is tension and where in the crust is this likely to occur?
• What is shear and where in the crust is this likely to occur?
• What causes an earthquake?
• What is crustal stress?
• What is the bending of rock layers due to stress in the earth's crust?
• How does the build-up of stress in the earth's crust result in an earthquake?
• What is the stress force that pulls on the crust where two plates are moving apart?
• Why does the magma move up to the earth’s crust!?
• What are the types of stress that occur in earth's crust?
• What is the difference between a fault and a fracture in the earth's crust?
• What causes earthquakes to occur in places that are not over a fault in the Earth's crust?
• What are the giant slabs of rock that Earth's crust is broken up into?
• Who was Andrija Mohorovicic?
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