Which outcome occurs when differential stress exceeds rock strength?

💡 Explanation

Differential stress triggers brittle failure during faulting, thus causing fault propagation and seismic slip along the fault plane rather than ductile folding and sedimentation because shear strength is exceeded in the rock.

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