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concepts from chapter 9
  These exercises explore concepts from Chapter 9 including the strength of rock in triaxial laboratory tests as a function of confining pressure, pore pressure, and effective stress, Coulomb's criterion for shearing failure, Griffith's criterion for brittle failure, linear elastic fracture mechanics and the propagation of opening and shearing fractures, and the development of a damage zone and secondary structures during the growth of dikes and faults.
 
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dike and joint propagation at Willow Wash
  This exercise explores the structural relationships between dikes and joints using field examples from the Colorado Plateau where Tertiary dikes intrude nearly horizontal sedimentary rocks. A common hypothesis about this relationship is found to be inconsistent with field observations and a new hypothesis is developed and examined using a mechanical model based on linear elastic fracture mechanics.