As far as I know from the papers both are being used, I mean
compressive deformation or compressional deformation, transpressive shear
or transpressional shear. However, I think that compressional and
transpressional terms sound much better.
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On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, Timothy Debacker wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> As a non-native English speaker, I am experiencing great difficulty with
> the terms compression, extension, transpression, transtension used as
> adjectives. More in particular, is it compressive deformation or
> compressional deformation? Transpressive shear or transpressional shear?
>
> And are there any exceptions? For instance, extensional collapse sounds
> right to me (which, off course, is no reference), but on the other hand,
> so does transpressive movement.
>
> Could anyone enlighten me on that matter please?
>
> Many thanks in advance,
>
> Tim
>
>
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