A study was made of the general regularities of localized plasticity development in deforming rocks. The potential usefulness of speckle photography techniques in applications to problems of deformation and fracture in rocks was explored and circumscribed. The evolution of localized plasticity in rocks was addressed using wave ideas. The tests were performed for the compression samples of marble, silvinite and sandstone; the deformation occurred in these materials via different micromechanisms of plasticity. By the deformation, autowaves would form in the compression samples of rocks. The autowave propagation rates are in the range ~10~(-5)...10~(-4)m/s (0.3...3 km/yr), which is close to slow motion rates observed in the earth crust after an earthquake or a rockslide. A correlation has been established between the calculated and experimental data on the time and coordinates of fracture in rocks.
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