elastic rebound
Britishnoun
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The deformed unbroken rocks snap back toward their original shape in a process called elastic rebound.
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The release of seismic energy is explained by the elastic rebound theory.
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Seismic waves are the physical expression of energy released by the elastic rebound of rock within displaced fault blocks and are felt as an earthquake.
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Earthquakes, or seismic activity, are caused by sudden brittle deformation accompanied by elastic rebound.
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Iris reflected, with elastic rebound from despair to relief, that men in the lower ranks of life do not usually form theories on the expensive virtues of the wine of France.
From The Wings of the Morning by Louis Tracy
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