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The stress field of the Earth’s crust is often described by three compressive principal stress components, namely the minimum horizontal, Sh, the maximum horizontal tectonic stress, SH and the vertical stress due to the weight of the overburden, SV. Depending on the depth variation of principal stresses assumed, different, simplified crustal stress models can be distinguished. When the vertical direction is not a principal stress direction, assuming that one principal component of the stress tensor is equal to the weight of overburden is of course wrong (cf. Sect. 4.1).
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Zang, A., Stephansson, O. (2010). Crustal Stress Models. In: Stress Field of the Earth’s Crust. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8444-7_5
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