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Mechanism for the persistence of tectonic lineaments

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IT is widely recognised that major faults and other linear zones of tectonic activity may remain intermittently active through extended periods of geological time : I suggest a mechanism which may account for this persistence.

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WATTERSON, J. Mechanism for the persistence of tectonic lineaments. Nature 253, 520–522 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1038/253520b0

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