I have been much interested in Mr. Foley’s paper, in the March Bulletin, entitled “Origin of the Faults in Creek and Osage Counties, Oklahoma.” The author is to be complimented on his manner of dealing with the subject and on the skill with which he has used theoretical and experimental data to orient the strain-ellipse diagram to explain the structure in the area of faults.

Examination of the author’s map gives one the impression that there is a remarkable parallelism over the entire area between both the fault belts and the short en échelon faults making up the belts....

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