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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.
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Pilger, R.H. (2003). Contemporary Stress Fields. In: Geokinematics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-07439-8_7
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