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concepts from chapter 5
  These exercises explore concepts from Chapter 5 including the estimation of principal stretches from deformed objects in rock, the characteristics of uniaxial and biaxial extension, pure dilation, and simple shearing, and an evaluation of the conditions under which strain may be approximated as infinitesimal.
 
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belemnite stretch at Morcles Nappe
  The maximum and minimum stretches in the plane of a slaty cleavage are estimated from measurements of deformed belemnite guards within the Liassic slate of the Morcles Nappe at Leytron, Valais, Switzerland. This exercise uses data found in the belemnite.txt file.
 
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infinitesimal strain during the great San Francisco earthquake
  An elementary mechanical model is used to explore the relationship between slip on a strike-slip fault and the strain of nearby rocks. Geodetic data from the Pt. Arena area is used to estimate the depth of slip on the San Andreas Fault during the 1906 earthquake and to calculate the strain. This exercise uses data found in the arena_data.txt file.
 
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