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SUBMITTER: Lund Snee JE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7181828 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lundstern Jens-Erik JE Zoback Mark D MD
Nature communications 20200423 1
The Earth's crustal stress field controls active deformation and reflects the processes driving plate tectonics. Here we present the first quantitative synthesis of relative principal stress magnitudes throughout North America together with hundreds of new horizontal stress orientations, revealing coherent stress fields at various scales. A continent-scale transition from compression (strike-slip and/or reverse faulting) in eastern North America to strike-slip faulting in the mid-continent to pr ...[more]