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Course Info

• Course Number / Code:
• 12.524 (Fall 2005) 
• Course Title:
• Mechanical Properties of Rocks 
• Course Level:
• Graduate 
• Offered by :
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
  Massachusetts, United States  
• Department:
• Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences 
• Course Instructor(s):
• Prof. J. Evans 
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  12.524 Mechanical Properties of Rocks
  
  
  
  

  Fall 2005

  
  
  

  
  
  

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  12.524 is a survey of the mechanical behavior of rocks in natural geologic situations. Topics will include a brief survey of field evidence of rock deformation, physics of plastic deformation in minerals, brittle fracture and sliding, and pressure-solution processes. We will compare results of field petrologic and structural studies to data from experimental structural geology.