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These receivers record the arrival time of the compressional waves.

Also at this time came the great compressional movements of the Urals.

Compressional waves, and sound waves, cannot go beyond the end of matter.

The storm had been blown away by a hot, compressional wind, leaving the concrete surface dry and clear.

Mortar can support vertical, compressional stress but cannot handle lateral forces.

Gravitational forces could be even important in certain cases during emplacement of compressional thrusts.

As the two masses meet, tremendous compressional forces distort and modify the rocks involved.

By 40 million years ago, the compressional force of the Kula Plate ceased.

Large overthrust faults occur in areas that have undergone great compressional forces.

This is known as a compressional plate margin.

Perhaps, an even more intriguing idea is this: transiting compressional waves cause pressure gradients.

In general, subsidence will dry out an air mass by adiabatic, or compressional, heating.

There are grabens and compressional arcs which rise above the surrounding plains.

Tectonic phases can be extensional or compressional in nature.

There are neither compressional waves nor flexural contributions to the displacement pattern.

Thrust faults are the result of compressional forces.

The ridge is an anticline, formed as a result of compressional geological folding.

The massive compressional forces involved in such a collision cause the basement rock and all of the units above it to deform.

Of prime importance were the compressional stresses that folded the Paleozoic sediments.

By convention the compressional quadrants are colour-filled and the tensional left white.

Nevertheless, the winds are notorious for causing hot, dry weather due to compressional heating of the lower atmosphere.

In perfectly brittle rocks, faulting occurs at 30 to the greatest compressional stress.

Overthrust fold: compressional force is so great that the rock strata are broken and slide over the other.

Sound waves are compressional vibrations of matter, quarks are matter itself.

The Pyrenees are not solely the result of compressional forces, but also show an important sinistral shearing.