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depth under the earth's surface.
Overburden pressure is also
called lithostatic pressure, or
vertical stress. In a
stratigraphic layer that is in hydrostatic...
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result in the
folding of rocks.
Because of the
large magnitudes of
lithostatic stress in
tectonic plates, tectonic-scale
deformation is
always subjected...
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Decrease of the
porosity of a
sediment under the
lithostatic pressure exerted by loading...
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pressure inside the co****r
layers may
reach a
critical value due to
lithostatic overburden.
Driven by the
fluid pressure the
sediment breaks through...
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variations in
degree of
welding are not a
result of
cooling during transport.
Lithostatic load is
responsible for the
intensity of
welding because the
Tiribi ignimbrite...
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Compaction takes place as the
sediments come
under increasing overburden (
lithostatic)
pressure from
overlying sediments.
Sediment grains move into more compact...
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representative peridotite), the
mantle is
almost exclusively solid. The
enormous lithostatic pressure exerted on the
mantle prevents melting,
because the temperature...
- gold. In the
mesothermal regime, at much
greater depths,
fluids under lithostatic pressure can be
released during seismic activity ****ociated with mountain...
- Bürgmann,
Roland (December 24, 2009), "Tremor-tide
correlations and near-
lithostatic pore
pressure on the deep San
Andreas fault", Nature, 462 (7276): 1048–51...
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impact on
shear stress,
especially where pore
fluid pressure approaches lithostatic pressure,
which is the
normal pressure induced by the
weight of the overlying...
