However, there was discrepancy concerning the location of the fault trace. My mentor and I would take field measurements of deformation structures in order to conduct stress analyses. Small faults can occur through bedding or through cobbles. We measure strike, dip, dip direction, rake and rake direction of the fault surface. If calcite crystalizes on the fault surface, growth crystals can show the direction of slip.
Cobble deformations are another type of deformation structure.
A sufficient number of these strain measurements can be used to orient the maximum principal stresses. After collecting measurements, we preformed data manipulations. We used two methodologies to analyze the given data. The regional compression and extension axes are found using a linked Bingham distribution to find a best fit for the total data set.