Bilingual glossary of geology

Designates the condition where the magnitudes of the pressures exerted on a body are not equal in all directions (e.g. pressure felt by rocks that are squeezed in between two colliding lithospheric plates). A body submitted to differential pressure will deform accordingly, and become elongated in a direction perpendicular to the direction of maximum pressure.

Themes:
Metamorphic rocks

Related words:
Uniform Pressure

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