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Long-Term (Geotectonic) Stress Generation, Propagation and Accumulation in the Earth

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  1. JEROME B. CARR: The author wishes to acknowledge that all but the final preparation of this publication was made while he was at Sperry Rand Research Center, Sudbury, Massachusetts.

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