Contractional
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Contractional is an adjective meaning of or related to contraction.
Meaning
of or related to contraction.
Example Sentences
Bars show principal horizontal stresses; black bars correspond to contractional stress and white bars to extensional stress.
Removal of SCLM can be accomplished by thermal erosion associated with a rising plume head, by extensional thinning of the lithosphere (and associated mantle upwelling), or by processes related to contractional tectonics [e.g., foundering of lithosphere during thickening, peeling of lithosphere, shearing away of lithosphere during shallow subduction, or erosion of lithosphere induced by flow in the mantle wedge above a subducting slab (1-5, 7 )].
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include myocontractile, contractural, vasocontractile, constrictory, concentric, contorsional.
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