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What (who) is -shear - definition
IN GEOLOGY, THE RESPONSE OF A ROCK TO DEFORMATION USUALLY BY COMPRESSIVE STRESS
Shear deformation; Shear Zone; Geological shear; Shear zones; Shear fault
Shear zone
In geology, a shear zone is a thin zone within the Earth's crust or upper mantle that has been strongly deformed, due to the walls of rock on either side of the zone slipping past each other. In the upper crust, where rock is brittle, the shear zone takes the form of a fracture called a fault.
Cornelius Lott Shear
AMERICAN BOTANIST AND MYCOLOGIST (1865–1956)
Cornelius L. Shear
Cornelius Lott Shear (1865–1956) was an American mycologist and plant pathologist. In 1908 he created the American Phytopathological Society.
Shear
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Shear (disambiguation); Shearing (disambiguation); Shear (mechanics)
·vt To reap, as grain.
II. Shear ·vi To deviate. ·see Sheer.
III. Shear ·vt A shearing;
- used in designating the age of sheep.
IV. Shear ·vt To produce a change of shape in by a shear. ·see Shear, ·noun, 4.
V. Shear ·vt Fig.: To deprive of property; to Fleece.
VI. Shear ·vt To cut, clip, or sever anything from with shears or a like instrument; as, to shear sheep; to shear cloth.
VII. Shear ·vt A pair of shears;
- now always used in the plural, but formerly also in the singular. ·see Shears.
VIII. Shear ·vt To separate or sever with shears or a similar instrument; to cut off; to clip (something) from a surface; as, to shear a fleece.
IX. Shear ·vi To become more or less completely divided, as a body under the action of forces, by the sliding of two contiguous parts relatively to each other in a direction parallel to their plane of contact.
X. Shear ·vt A strain, or change of shape, of an elastic body, consisting of an extension in one direction, an equal compression in a perpendicular direction, with an unchanged magnitude in the third direction.
XI. Shear ·vt An action, resulting from applied forces, which tends to cause two contiguous parts of a body to slide relatively to each other in a direction parallel to their plane of contact;
- also called shearing stress, and tangential stress.
Wikipedia
Shear (geology)
In geology, shear is the response of a rock to deformation usually by compressive stress and forms particular textures. Shear can be homogeneous or non-homogeneous, and may be pure shear or simple shear. Study of geological shear is related to the study of structural geology, rock microstructure or rock texture and fault mechanics.
The process of shearing occurs within brittle, brittle-ductile, and ductile rocks. Within purely brittle rocks, compressive stress results in fracturing and simple faulting.
Examples of use of -shear
1. This is called wind shear, and this summer the wind shear values are up to 40 per cent below normal.
2. Shear contributed to this report from Washington.
3. Shear and Josh White in Washington contributed to this report.
4. Shear and Lila de Tantillo contributed to this report.
5. Shear and the Associated Press contributed to this report.