"Joanne Simpson" <cor### [at] onewhiteravencom> wrote:
> On the other hand, if the material were purely plastic (e.g. clay or metal),
> it _might_ deform like the picture, but I suspect the slope of the mountain
> would be much shallower, and the shape of the top more flared out.
It might, of course, have different responses under different regimes of
pressure and temperature, to say nothing of varying internal structures.
Unknown materials (especially fictional ones) behave however you want!

Bill

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