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2003 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Contemporary Stress Fields
Author : Rex H. Pilger
Published in: Geokinematics
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Included in: Professional Book Archive
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Check out the first one or two chapters of a good structural geology or seismology textbook and you’ll find the derivation of the elastic stress tensor. Read further and, while you might find some application of the total tensor; more typically the tensor is quickly reduced to principal stresses. Then, the principal stresses get reduced even more to their components referenced to local earth coordinates.