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Bilingual glossary of geology


Compression  Compression
A system of normal forces that tend to decrease the volume or shorten a material.

Themes:
  Structural geology

 Related words:
  Tension
  Shear



GEO1515 - Introduction aux matériaux terrestresProfesseur: Simone Dumas

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