Note: Front Cover -- Recent Crustal Movements, 1979 -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- PREFACE -- LIST OF AUTHORS -- Part 1: Instruments and methods -- CHAPTER 1. ON THE DESIGN AND ERROR CHARACTERISTICS OF A FUNDAMENTAL GLOBAL GEODETIC NETWORK -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- PRESENT EFFORTS TOWARDS THE REALIZATION OF A TERRESTRIAL REFERENCE SYSTEM -- A CONCEPT FOR THE REALIZATION OF A FUNDAMENTAL STATION - THE STATION WETTZELL -- CONCLUDING REMARKS -- CHAPTER 2. THE PRESENT STATE AND PROSPECTS OF DEVELOPMENT OF HIGH-PRECISION GEODETIC METHODS FOR STUDYING RECENT CRUSTAL MOVEMENTS -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- INSTRUMENTS FOR STUDYING HORIZONTAL RCMs WITHIN A RANGE OF 0.1-1 KM -- RANGE OF 5 TO 300 KM -- RANGE OF 1000 TO 9000 KM -- PRECISE LEVELLING -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 3. NEW INTERFEROMETRIC TECHNIQUES FOR MEASURING HORIZONTAL EARTH CRUSTAL MOVEMENTS -- ABSTRACT -- CHAPTER 4. TWO-COLOR TERRAMETER -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- THE TERRAMETER -- APPLICATIONS -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Part 2: Recent crustal movements of tectonic or human origin -- CHAPTER 5. RECENT VERTICAL CRUSTAL MOVEMENTS OF THE CARPATHO-BALKAN REGION -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- THE ADJUSTMENT -- THE CBR RECENT VERTICAL MOVEMENTS MAP -- BRIEF INTERPRETATION OF THE RESULTS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 6. HEIGHT CHANGES AND RECENT VERTICAL CRUSTAL MOVEMENTS IN WESTERN GERMAN AREAS - INSTRUMENTAL IMPROVEMENTS -- ABSTRACT -- THE MAP OF HEIGHT CHANGES AND RECENT VERTICAL CRUSTAL MOVEMENTS -- INSTRUMENTAL IMPROVEMENTS FOR THE OBSERVATION OF RECENT VERTICAL CRUSTAL MOVEMENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 7. SOME RESULTS CONCERNING CRUSTAL MOVEMENTS IN FINLAND -- ABSTRACT -- PRECISE LEVELLING -- HIGH-PRECISION GRAVITY MEASUREMENTS -- MEASUREMENTS WITH A LONG WATER-TUBE TILT METER -- REFERENCES. , CHAPTER 8. GEODETIC RESULTS IN AFAR: THE RIFTING EPISODE OF NOVEMBER 1978 IN THE ASAL-GHOUBBET RIFT -- ABSTRACT -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 9. ON THE COMPILATION OF THE MAP OF CONTEMPORARY VERTICAL CRUSTAL MOVEMENTS IN CANADA -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- TECHNIQUE USED -- SOLUTION -- THE MAP AND ITS ACCURACY -- DISCUSSION OF RESULTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 10. EPISODIC BLOCK MOTION AND CONVERGENCE ALONG THE CALAVERAS FAULT IN CENTRAL CALIFORNIA -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- THE RIGID-BLOCK HYPOTHESIS -- CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 11. CONTEMPORARY DOMING OF THE ADIRONDACK MOUNTAINS: FURTHER EVIDENCE FROM RELEVELING -- ABSTRACT -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 12. BOREHOLE TILT MEASUREMENTS: APERIODIC CRUSTAL TILT IN AN ASEISMIC AREA -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES -- DATA -- ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION -- DISCUSSION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 13. COMPLETE DETERMINATION OF LOCAL CRUSTAL DEFORMATION FROM GEODETIC OBSERVATIONS -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- GEODETIC DEFORMATION RATE PARAMETERS -- OBSERVATION EQUATIONS IN TERMS OF THE GEODETIC DEFORMATION RATE PARAMETERS -- DETERMINABILITY OF DEFORMATION RATE PARAMETERS -- CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 14. RECENT CRUSTAL MOVEMENTS IN SWITZERLAND AND THEIR GEOPHYSICAL INTERPRETATION -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- VERTICAL MOVEMENTS FROM REPEATED PRECISE LEVELLINGS -- BOUGUER GRAVITY MAP -- CRUSTAL STRUCTURE AND ISOSTATIC ANOMALIES -- CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 15. VERTICAL CRUSTAL MOVEMENTS IN INDO-GANGETIC PLAINS OF NORTHERN INDIA AS DETERMINED FROM SCATTERED RELEVELLINGS -- ABSTRACT -- CHAPTER 16. STUDY OF CRUSTAL MOVEMENTS ACROSS SHALI THRUST IN THE AREA OF SHANAN (JOGINDER NAGAR) IN HIMACHAL PRADESH -- ABSTRACT. , CHAPTER 17. MONITORING REGIONAL CRUSTAL DEFORMATION WITH GEODETIC LEVELLING DATA -- ABSTRACT -- CHAPTER 18. TRENDS IN THE TILT OF QUTB MINAR -- ABSTRACT -- Part 3: Recent crustal movements, seismicity and volcanism -- CHAPTER 19. STRESS PATTERN AND STRAIN RELEASE IN THE ALPINE FORELAND -- ABSTRACT -- REGIONAL STRESS FIELD -- THE PATTERN OF STRAIN RELEASE -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 20. TECTONIC STRAIN AND DRIFT -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- DISCUSSION -- SUMMARY -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 21. INSTRUMENTAL NETWORKS FOR MONITORING SHORT-PERIOD TECTONIC MOTIONS IN SEISMIC ZONES -- ABSTRACT -- CHAPTER 22. INTERRELATION BETWEEN THE DISPLAY OF SLOW CRUSTAL MOVEMENTS AND SEISMICITY IN CENTRAL ASIA -- ABSTRACT -- CHAPTER 23. RECENT CRUSTAL MOVEMENTS AND INTRA-PLATE EARTHQUAKES IN INDIA -- ABSTRACT -- CHAPTER 24. SEISMICITY, CRUSTAL STRESSES AND RECENT CRUSTAL MOVEMENTS IN SWITZERLAND -- ABSTRACT -- CHAPTER 25. PLIO-PLEISTOCENE VOLCANO-TECTONIC EVOLUTION OF LA REFORMA CALDERA, BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO -- ABSTRACT -- CHAPTER 26. SEISMICITY AND RECENT CRUSTAL MOVEMENTS IN FRANCE -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- THE SEISMOTECTONIC MAP -- REGIONAL EXAMPLES -- CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Part 4: Interpretation of recent crustal movements -- CHAPTER 27. THE GEOTECTONIC STRESS FIELD AND CRUSTAL MOVEMENTS -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- THE GLOBAL NEOTECTONIC STRESS FIELD -- CRUSTAL DISPLACEMENTS -- SYNTHESIS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 28. GRAVITY AND HEIGHT VARIATIONS CONNECTED WITH THE CURRENT RIFTING EPISODE IN NORTHERN ICELAND -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- GRAVITY AND HEIGHT MEASUREMENTS IN THE RIFTING ZONE -- GRAVITY AND HEIGHT VARIATIONS BETWEEN 1975 AND 1979 -- THE GRAVITY-HEIGHT-VARIATION RATIO -- CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 29. CRUSTAL MOVEMENTS AND GEODYNAMICS IN FENNOSCANDIA -- ABSTRACT. , INTRODUCTION -- THE DOUBLE POSTGLACIAL UPLIFT -- UPLIFT AND PROPERTIES OF THE ASTHENOSPHERE AND LITHOSPHERE -- THE PRESENT "LINEAR" UPLIFT -- THE STABILITY OF THE GEODETIC REFERENCE LEVEL -- LONG-TERM MOVEMENTS AND GEOMETRY OF DEFORMATIONS -- NEOTECTONICS -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 30. BOUGUER ANOMALIES AND CRUSTAL STRUCTURE IN THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- PROCEDURE AND RESULTS -- CONCLUSION -- CHAPTER 31. BOUGUER GRAVITY MAP OF INDONESIA -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- HISTORICAL BACKGROUND -- SURVEY PROCEDURES -- THE GRAVITY SURVEY -- DATA REDUCTION -- SMOOTHING AND CONTOURING THE GRAVITY ANOMALIES -- RESULTS -- CALIBRATION RANGE -- INTERPRETATION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- CHAPTER 32. A COMPARISON OF COMPUTATION METHODS FOR CRUSTAL STRAINS FROM GEODETIC MEASUREMENTS -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. COMPUTATION METHODS -- 3. COMPARISON -- 4. COMPUTER SIMULATIONS -- 5. CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 33. ON THE ORIGIN OF RECENT VERTICAL MOVEMENTS OF THE EAST ASIATIC CONTINENT ISLAND SYSTEMS -- ABSTRACT -- Part 5: Methods of evaluating recent crustal movements -- CHAPTER 34. MULTIVARIATE HYPOTHESIS TESTS FOR DETECTING RECENT CRUSTAL MOVEMENTS -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- MULTIVARIATE MODEL -- HYPOTHESIS TESTING -- SUCCESSIVE TEST PROCEDURE -- EXAMPLE -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 35. MATHEMATICAL FOUNDATION OF NON-TECTONIC EFFECTS IN GEODETIC RECENT CRUSTAL MOVEMENT MODELS -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- AN OPERATIONAL APPROACH FOR COMPUTING RECENT CRUSTAL MOVEMENTS -- THE TREATMENT OF NON-GEODETIC DATA IN THE APPROACH -- COMPUTATION EXAMPLE 1: REGIONAL AND LOCAL FEATURES OF VERTICAL MOTIONS IN WEST GERMANY -- ANALYSIS OF THE RECENT VERTICAL CRUSTAL MOVEMENTS IN WEST GERMANY BY SURFACE DEFORMATION PARAMETERS -- CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENT -- REFERENCES. , CHAPTER 36. STATISTICAL TESTS FOR DETECTING MOVEMENTS IN REPEATEDLY MEASURED GEODETIC NETWORKS -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. THE MODEL OF ADJUSTMENT -- 3. THE GLOBAL CONGRUENCY TEST -- 4. LOCALIZATION IN THE TIME DOMAIN -- 5. LOCALIZATION IN THE GEOMETRY DOMAIN -- 6. AN EXAMPLE -- 7. CONCLUSION -- 8. REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 37. STATISTICAL EVALUATION OF RELEVELLINGS -- ABSTRACT -- CHAPTER 38. BEST INVARIANT COVARIANCE COMPONENT ESTIMATORS AND THEIR APPLICATION TO THE GENERALIZED MULTIVARIATE ADJUSTMENT OF HETEROGENEOUS DEFORMATION OBSERVATIONS -- ABSTRACT -- REFERENCES.

Note: Front Cover -- Recent Crustal Movements, 1982 -- Copyright Page -- Preface -- List of Authors -- Table of Contents -- Part 1: New Results in Recent Crustal Movement Studies at Local or Regional Scale -- Chapter 1. Geodetic Control of Neotectonics in Venezuela -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- VERTICAL MOVEMENTS -- HORIZONTAL MOVEMENTS -- GRAVITY MEASUREMENTS -- SUBSIDENCE IN OILFIELDS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENT -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 2 .The Geodynamic Polygon of Santiago De Cuba: A Scientific and Socio-Economic Perspective -- ABSTRACT -- Chapter 3. Releveling Evidence for Crustal Deformation in the United States -- ABSTRACT -- Chapter 4. Recomputation of Vertical Crustal Motions Near Palmdale, California, 1959-1975 -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- INPUT DATA -- COMPUTATION OF VERTICAL MOTION -- RESULTS AND INTERPRETATION -- CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 5. Multiwavelength EDM Measurements in Southern California -- ABSTRACT -- Chapter 6. Strain Accumulation along the San Andreas Fault System East of San Francisco Bay, California -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- CREEP RATES -- GEODOLITE DATA -- DISCUSSION -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 7. Finite Element Analysis of Strain Patterns from Geodetic Observations across a Plate Margin -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- STRAIN PARAMETERS AS DERIVED FROM POINT DISPLACEMENTS -- STRAIN PARAMETERS AS DERIVED FROM DISTORTIONS OF OBSERVABLES -- FURTHER STRAIN PARAMETERS -- FINITE ELEMENT STRAIN ANALYSIS -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENT -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 8. Tectonic Motions and Systematic Errors in Leveling and Trilateration Data for California -- ABSTRACT -- LEVELING -- TRILATERATION -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 9. Recent Crustal Movement Determined from Repeat Surveying-Results from Southeastern and Southwestern Australia -- ABSTRACT. , Chapter 10. Crustal Movement from Satellite Observations in the Australian Region -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- LAGEOS RANGING -- REPEATED GEODETIC SURVEYS -- CRUSTAL PLATES IN THE PAPUA NEW GUINEA-NEW BRITAIN REGION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 11. Horizontal Deformations on the Border of the Bohemian Massif as Determined by Repeated Edm Measurements -- ABSTRACT -- Chapter 12. Land Uplift and its Implications on the Geoid in Fennoscandia -- ABSTRACT -- BACKGROUND -- DERIVATION OF FORMULA -- NUMERICAL RESULTS -- CONCLUDING REMARKS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 13. Vertical Crustal Movements in the Kuril Islands from Geologic-Geomorphological and Tidal Data -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- GEOMORPHOLOGICAL EVIDENCE FOR VERTICAL COAST MOVEMENTS -- CORRELATING RECENT VERTICAL CRUSTAL MOVEMENTS AND EARTHQUAKES -- CONCLUDING REMARKS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 14. A Precise Geodetic Survey in Japan -- ABSTRACT -- Chapter 15. Recent and Present-Day Subduction and Collision along the Northern Tip of the Philippine Sea Plate -- ABSTRACT -- Chapter 16. Horizontal Crustal Movements in the Kanto-Tokai District, Japan, as Deduced from Geodetic Data -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- DATA AND THEIR REDUCTION -- TECTONIC IMPLICATIONS OF DEDUCED DISPLACEMENT VECTORS AND STRAINS FOR DIFFERENT PERIODS -- EARTHQUAKE CYCLE ASSOCIATED WITH THE 1923 KANTO EARTHQUAKE AND SECULAR RATES OF DISPLACEMENTS OF TRIANGULATION STATIONS -- INTERSEISMIC CONTRACTION AND COSEISMIC EXTENSION ARISING FROM NNW DRIFTING OF THE PHILIPPINE SEA PLATE -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 17. Crustal Movement in the Tokai District, Japan -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- LATEST CRUSTAL MOVEMENT IN TOKAI DISTRICT -- CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 18. Anomalous Crustal Uplift in the Northeastern Part of the IZU Peninsula, Central Honshu, Japan -- ABSTRACT. , INTRODUCTION -- ANOMALOUS CRUSTAL UPLIFT -- SECULAR PATTERN OF ENERGY RELEASE -- CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Part 2: Crustal Deformations associated with Volcanism: A Model for the 1975-1976 Tolbachik Eruption, Kamchatka, as Deduced from Geodetic Data -- Chapter 19. A Model for the 1975-1976 Tolbachik Eruption, Kamchatka, as Deduced from Geodetic Data -- ABSTRACT -- Chapter 20. Ground Deformations Associated with the 1977-1978 Eruption of USU Volcano, Japan -- ABSTRACT -- Part 3: Crustal Deformations associated with Seismic Activity -- Chapter 21. Recent Crustal Movements and Seismicity in the Western Coastal Region of Peninsular India -- ABSTRACT -- Chapter 22. Observability of Crustal Deformations Due to a Foreslip on a Hypothesized Earthquake Fault -- ABSTRACT -- Chapter 23. Vertical Movements in Connection with Earthquakes in Finland -- ABSTRACT -- Chapter 24. Gravity Variation Before and After the Tangshan Earthquake -- ABSTRACT -- Chapter 25. Local Gravity Variations Before And After the Tangshan Earthquake (M = 7.8) and the Dilatation Process -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- DATA PROCESSING -- PRINCIPAL RESULTS -- DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 26. On the Results of Geodetic Observations of Seismic Effects -- ABSTRACT -- Chapter 27. Strain Effects Near Palmdale Associated with the San Fernando Earthquake (1971) -- ABSTRACT -- Chapter 28. Research on the Vertical Movements of the Crust Associated with Earthquake Swarms in Japan -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- CRUSTAL UPLIFTS ASSOCIATED WITH EARTHQUAKE SWARMS IN JAPAN -- RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CRUSTAL UPLIFTS AND EARTHQUAKE SWARMS-IZU PENINSULA CENTRAL JAPAN -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 29. Secular and Earthquake-Related Vertical Crustal Movements in Japan as Deduced from Tidal Records (1951-1981) -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION. , METHOD -- DATA USED -- VERTICAL CRUSTAL MOVEMENTS -- CONCLUDING REMARKS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 30. Study on Coseismic and Postseismic Crustal Movements Associated with the 1923 Kanto Earthquake -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- INVERSION ANALYSIS OF GEODETIC DATA -- INTERPRETATION OF POSTSEISMIC CRUSTAL MOVEMENTS -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 31. Crustal Strain, Crustal Stress and Microearthquake Activity in the Northeastern Japan Arc -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- SEISMIC ACTIVITY -- STRAIN ANALYSIS -- STRESS COMPUTATION -- SUMMARY -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 32. Abnormal Ground Strain Changes Observed at Erimo Before and After the 1973 Earthquake off the Nemuro Peninsula -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- DATA AND RESULTS OF ANALYSIS -- CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 33. Anomalous Crustal Uplift and Crustal Structure in the Matsushiro and the IZU Peninsula Earthquake Swarm Regions -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- CRUSTAL STRUCTURE AND CRUSTAL MOVEMENT IN THE MATSUSHIRO AREA -- CRUSTAL STRUCTURE AND CRUSTAL MOVEMENT IN THE IZU PENINSULA -- ANOMALOUS CRUSTAL UPLIFT AND CRUSTAL STRUCTURE -- CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Part 4: Error Analysis -- Computations -- Methods of Measurements -- Chapter 34. Determination of Vertical Recent Crustal Movements by Levelling and Gravity Data -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONS -- 3. NUMERICAL RESULTS -- 4. CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 35. Application of Least-Squares Collocation to Gravity and Height Variations Associated with a Recent Rifting Process -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- MATHEMATICAL MODEL -- TEST FIELDS NÁMAFJALL AND GJÁSTYKKI, NORTHERN ICELAND -- TEST FIELD AKUREYRI-GRIMSTADIR, NORTHERN ICELAND -- CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES. , Chapter 36. Dynamic Adjustment of Repeatedly Observed Levelling Networks Used in Crustal Vertical Deformation Monitoring -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- ADJUSTMENT METHOD OF FREE LEVEL NETS FOR SEPARATE PERIODS OF TIME (METHOD A) -- DYNAMIC ADJUSTMENT WITH LINEAR MOVEMENT MODEL -- DYNAMIC ADJUSTMENT WITH NONLINEAR MOVEMENT MODEL (METHOD E) -- THE STATISTICAL TESTS OF HYPOTHESES OF THE PARAMETERS OBTAINED IN DYNAMIC ADJUSTMENT AND INFERENCE OF ANOMALOUS REGIONS OF CRUSTAL VERTICAL DEFORMATION -- DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION -- CONCLUSION -- Chapter 37. Quasi-Stable Adjustment of Monitoring Networks -- ABSTRACT -- Chapter 38. Error Analysis and Adjustment Synthesis of the Two Main Strategies in Vertical Geokinetic Networks Data Processing -- ABSTRACT -- Chapter 39. An Attempt to Determine Areas with Homogeneous Vertical Soil Movement -- ABSTRACT -- Chapter 40. On the Strain Analysis of Tectonic Movements Using Fault Crossing Geodetic Surveys -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- BASIC CRITERIA OF THE GENERALIZED APPROACH -- PRELIMINARY IDENTIFICATION OF THE DEFORMATION MODEL -- ESTIMATION OF THE DEFORMATION PARAMETERS -- CHECKING THE DEFORMATION MODEL AND SELECTION OF THE "BEST" MODEL -- SUMMARY OF PROCEDURES WHEN USING THE GENERALIZED APPROACH -- EXAMPLE -- CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 41. The Estimate of the Stress Tensor on the Earth's Surface -- ABSTRACT -- Chapter 42. Determining the Cause of Crustal Deformation from Observations of Crustal Tilt and Extensions -- ABSTRACT -- OBSERVATIONS OF CRUSTAL MOVEMENTS -- ESTIMATION OF NUCLEI -- CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 43. On the Cause of Long-Period Crustal Movement -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- TYPICAL FEATURES OF STRAIN RECORD -- RELATION BETWEEN STRAIN CHANGE AND PRECIPITATION IN THE LONG-PERIOD RANGE -- DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. , REFERENCES.