Shear zone
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title:
Shear zone
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In geology, a shear zone is a thin zone within the Earth's crust or upper mantle that has been strongly deformed, due to the walls of rock on either side of the zone slipping past each other. In the upper crust, where rock is brittle, the shear zone takes the form of a fracture called a fault. In the lower crust and mantle, the extreme conditions of pressure and temperature make the rock ductile. That is, the rock is capable of slowly deforming without fracture, like hot metal being worked by a
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Structural discontinuity surface in the Earth's crust and upper mantle
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shear_zone
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2024-04-05T20:29:52Z
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