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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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forms deep in the Earth's
crust under conditions of high
ambient or
lithostatic pressure. In
order for the
granite to be
exposed at the Earth's surface...
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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...
- also
result in
folding of rocks.
Because of the
large magnitudes of
lithostatic stress in
tectonic plates, tectonic-scale
deformation is
always subjected...
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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...
- P_{m}} is the
pressure of the magma, P l {\displaystyle P_{l}} is the
lithostatic pressure (weight of the
overlying rock), T {\displaystyle T} is the thickness...
- gold. In the
mesothermal regime, at much
greater depths,
fluids under lithostatic pressure can be
released during seismic activity ****ociated with mountain...
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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...
- at the surface, the
mantle is
almost exclusively solid. The
enormous lithostatic pressure exerted on the
mantle prevents melting because the temperature...
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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...
