contractional

During the cooling of a thick lava flow, contractional joints or fractures form.

But Salomon says the stimulus would merely reverse a contractional fiscal policy and do little to offset a sharp decline in private business investment.

Troughs are interpreted to be extensional features-grabens, while wrinkle ridges are contractional.

Currently the area is being deformed by contractional tectonics, causing inversion of these earlier basins, forming anticlinal structures.

From around 550 Ma the beds of the Geosyncline began a series of intraplate extensional and contractional events.

Such a move would signify that the Fed is not satisfied that a contractional budget policy by itself is enough to prevent the economy from overheating.

A fold and thrust belt is a series of mountainous foothills, adjacent to an orogenic belt, which form due to contractional tectonics.

Continental deformation is driven by plate interactions through active tectonic processes such as continental transform systems with extensional, strike-slip, and contractional regimes.

In later literature it has become a general term for any block entirely bounded by faults, whether the overall deformation type is contractional, extensional or strike-slip in nature.

Thrust tectonics or contractional tectonics is concerned with the structures formed, and the tectonic processes associated with, the shortening and thickening of the crust or lithosphere.

Like all tessera regions, it sits above the surrounding terrain at an elevation of 1 to 2 kilometers elevation and is heavily deformed by what appears to be contractional folding.

Due to Fletcher's distinctive pattern of contractional forms and linguistic preferences (em for them, ye for you, etc.), his hand can be fairly readily distinguished from Beaumont's in their collaborative works.

Like Hoover in the beginning of the Great Depression, Mr. Hashimoto has adopted what some regard as a contractional fiscal policy in the face of a banking crisis and an overall economic slowdown.

The deformation along the boundary is normally partitioned into dip-slip contractional structures in the foreland with a single large strike-slip structure in the hinterland accommodating all the strike-slip component along the boundary.

These arguments depend upon literary parallels and the distinctive textual preferences of the different authors; for example, Ford's pattern of unusual contractional forms (like t'ee for to ye,) is present in some scenes but absent from others.

It is also possible that other mechanisms, such as dynamic topography related to mantle mass anomalies, and intraplate stress related to episodes of contractional and extensional tectonics, play a part by causing significant tectonic uplift and subsidence across the craton.

The Verdugo Mountains are part of the western Transverse Ranges, which have risen in the last 7 million years as the result of contractional deformation resulting from transpressional motion and rotation of crustal blocks in the "Big Bend" region of the San Andreas Fault.