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Fracture
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Stress relieved by catastrophic failure. On the microscale, this can be grain bonds breaking. On a larger scale fractures occur when layer adhesion is broken under shear stress along the bed surface, tensile stress along the crown, shear along the flanks, and/or compressive stress at the stauchwall.
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