It results when there is a fracture in the continuity of a rock formation.

It is the large-scale deformation of the Earth's crust by natural processes.

It occurs when the Earth's crust sinks or move relatively lower

It is the type of strain where flexibility of rock units are displayed by going back to their original shape after they are freed from stress.

A type of stress which results from the sliding motion of two plates which pass one another.

It is curving of layered bedrocks where there is an application of stress

It is a force that tends to compress, pull apart, or distort a rock.

It is the adjustment to stress which could result into a change in volume or shape or could even lead to breaking.

It is the state of gravitational equilibrium between the Earth's lithosphere and asthenosphere.

It has both strike slip and dip slip components.