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Term Paper: A term paper is required. It is not a book report or literature review (for which no credit will be given). Instead, it is to be an original investigation of a problem in geologic fracture mechanics that you pose and evaluate (and solve) using the new methods that you are learning in this seminar. A one-paragraph prospectus of what you propose to do is required and must be approved before starting work on the paper. High professional standards of writing and referencing are expected; all graphics and tables must be computer generated; no hand-drawn materials or scanned figures from books, the web, or other sources can be used. All your work must be original.

Length: 10–20 pages, exclusive of figures, tables, and references

Prospectus due: Thursday

Term paper due: Thursday

Introduction- Chapter 1 (Geologic Structural Discontinuities)

Chapter 2 (mode-I)

Chapter 9 (LEFM)

Chapter 10 (GFM)