An example may be East Australia where, as suggested by Zhang et al. This probably explains the anomalous regional stress pattern where the principal compressive stresses are horizontal and oriented at large angles to the present-day absolute plate velocity vector. Crustal stress model. A crustal section with a topographic high. Principal stress vectors at two locations within the modelled section for three models.
H gives the amplitude of topographic high of the model.
Red colour indicates tensile stress and blue indicates compressive stress. Displacement vectors for the crustal stress models with a denser central block. R gives the density contrast of the model. Red colour indicates tensile stress and blue indicates compressive stress.