Dear Dr. Richards and co-authors,

Thank you for your thoughtful responses to the reviewers' comments. Please proceed with submitting a revised manuscript that includes the changes you outlined in those responses.

All the best,
Kaitlin

Dear Dr. Richards and co-authors,

Thank you for your revised manuscript in accordance with your responses to the reviewers, and also for your patience during this step of the review process. We will be pleased to publish your manuscript after the following minor corrections are made:

L16: do not remove ‘is’ from this first sentence
L43-44: this is a sentence fragment that needs to be fixed – consider just removing ‘While’
L53: missing a word after ‘by’ here
L115: add ‘by’ before the references or place them in parentheses; only the reference year needs to be put in parentheses for the Azuma and Goto-Azuma reference: ‘(1996)’
L122: either ‘grains’ should be singular or ‘grain’s’
L125: either remove ‘to’ or change it to ‘the’
L245: this sentence is unclear. Do you mean ‘…which act as two bounds that the true grain…’?
L284: remove period after ‘Equations’
L314: check to make sure you aren’t missing text here. If not, remove the hanging ‘We’
L375: ‘infront’ should be two words
L379: should be ‘implicitly’
L384: need ‘in’ before ‘the natural world’
L402: ‘of’ before ‘samples’
L429: remove the extra ‘surface’ before ‘create’
L438: add ‘that’ or ‘and’ before ‘extends’
L473: add ‘is’ to the second sentence: ‘The exception is…’
L476: use in-text referencing here ‘following Rathmann and Lilien (2021)’
L477: use in-text referencing here: ‘in Placidi and others (2010)’
L498: ‘this rheology’ repeated twice here
L536: ‘grain’s’
L558: remove ‘a’ from Section 6.4 title
L578: ‘does’ should be ‘do’
L594: ‘where’ should be ‘were’
L623: consider including the non-linear orthotropic acronym here ‘(NLO)’, and use the acronym in subsequent references in this section (L626)
L626: fix ‘is it is’
L632: remove the extra space before the comma; remove the period after ‘Table’; add a comma after ‘Table 2’
L634: fix the section reference here
L643: again consider including the non-linear orthotropic acronym here ‘(NLO)’, and use the acronym in subsequent references in this section (Lines 651, 652, 654)
L653: add ‘is’ after ‘there’
L657: define the VPSC acronym at its first use here
L674: add ‘that’ after ‘Now’
L691: ‘is’ should be ‘are’
Supplement:
L3: ‘these’ should be ‘there’
L20: ‘the effect of the lattice rotation of stress,’
L27: ‘he’ should be ‘the’
L33: add ‘is’ before ‘no’
L38-39: there are three uses of ‘only’ in this sentence, remove some for clarity
Figure captions:
Fig. S5: remove ‘value’ from ‘value values’
Fig. S7: remove ‘value’ from ‘value values’
Fig. S8: ‘grain’s’; remove ‘value’ from ‘value values’
Fig. S9: ‘grain’s’; remove ‘value’ from ‘value values’
Fig. S10: remove ‘value’ from ‘value values’

All the best,
Kaitlin

Dear Dr. Richards and co-authors,

Thank you for your attention to those last small details. We are pleased to publish your manuscript at this time.

All the best,
Kaitlin