Solution

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The fault dips are approximately . The mapped senses of fault slip are predominantly strike-slip faulting. In an Andersonian faulting regime, the intermediate principal stress is vertical and the maximum and minimum principal stresses are horizontal, so the preferred fault planes are vertical. Local bends can introduce oblique-slip faulting without changing this first-order interpretation.

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