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Feb 2006
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006p%26ss...54..216m&link_type=abstract
Planetary and Space Science, Volume 54, Issue 2, p. 216-218.
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The Earth's crust faults and lineaments group in clusters with predominant N S and E W (System I) and NW SE and NE SW (System II) directions. The earthquake epicenters of the Benioff seismofocal zones follow the same regularities. In other words, seismofocal zones (epicenters of earthquakes) constitute a part of the regular network of the Earth's crust and lithosphere faults and lineaments. Mathematical modeling of stress distribution in the lithosphere due to a change of the Earth's ellipsoid compression showed that the principal stresses σ1 and σ2 are oriented in N S and E W directions, while corresponding shear stresses τ are oriented in NE SW and NW SE directions. It is shown that the secular deceleration of the Earth's rotation can be a reasonable mechanism for the change of Earth's ellipsoid compression and, consequently, for the origin of the regular system of faults and lineaments described above.
Anokhin Vladimir A.
Maslov Lev A.
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