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Dictionary definition: compressive stress
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- A Dictionary of Earth Sciences
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Copyright© A Dictionary of Earth Sciences 1999, originally published by Oxford University Press 1999. (Hide copyright information)
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compressive stress
The stress produced by forces acting on a unit area of rock, which can be resolved into a
normal stress
and a
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