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The theoretical fundamentals of the hypothesis are given about a stationary network of faults, which activate at different orientations of global and regional stresses and/or continent rotation in a stationary force field. It is shown that in a coarsely discrete fractal medium: (a) referencing of cracks and faults to the global, regional, and local systems is not reliable; (b) preparedness of faults to slips during the reorientation of axes for stress fields of comparable scales is interrupted by new-generation faults; and (c) the new elements of the global network do not unavoidably inherit the orientations and locations of the earlier ones.
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Original Russian Text © N.V. Koronovskii, A.A. Naimark, G.V. Bryantseva, 2015, published in Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta. Geologiya, 2015, No. 3, pp. 11–20.
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Koronovskii, N.V., Naimark, A.A. & Bryantseva, G.V. On the mechanisms of tectonic rupturing, the maps of fault tectonics, and the hypothesis of stationary continental faults. Moscow Univ. Geol. Bull. 70, 191–200 (2015). https://doi.org/10.3103/S0145875215030059
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