The median home value in Emerald Isle, NC is $ 385,000. This is higher than the county median home value of $ 233,100. The national median home value is $ 185,800. The average price of homes sold in Emerald Isle, NC is $ 385,000. Approximately 18.06% of Emerald Isle homes are owned, compared to 8.55% rented, while 73.39% are vacant. Emerald Isle real estate listings include condos, townhomes, and single family homes for sale.
Even if it be granted that the effective forces which cause the folding and dislocation of rocks are, in the last analysis, a horizontal or tangential compression, it still remains to inquire how this great force was generated. There is no general agreement concerning the solution of this problem.
1 Rocks that are being pulled apart are under tension (also called extension). Tension causes rocks to lengthen or break apart. Tension is the major type of stress found at divergent plate boundaries.  When forces act parallel to each other but in opposite directions, the stress is called shear (Figure 7.2). Shear stress causes two planes of material to slide past each other. This is the most common stress found at transform plate boundaries.