Abstract
Sufficient data on joint orientations in the general region of Eastern North America have now been accumulated for a global picture to emerge. As is well known, the preferred joint orientations can be calculated for a region by a statistical maximum likelihood procedure and the directions of the principal neotectonic stresses can be inferred there-from. For the individual regions investigated, the postulated stresses are in conformity with those expectable from plate-tectonic theory. In the large-scale picture, the most startling characteristic is the indication of an E-W unconformity in the stress-orientation just below a latitude of 40°N.
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