John Walter Handin -- Mechanics of deformation of crustal rocks: historical development -- Calcite fabrics in experimental shear zones -- Anisotropy in the rheology of hydrolytically weakened synthetic quartz crystals -- An experimental study of the role of water in quartz deformation -- Creep and creep rupture of granite rocks -- Activation volume for steady state creep in polycrystalline CsCl: Cesium chloride structure -- Stiff testing machines, stick slip sliding, and the stability of rock deformation -- Constitutive properties of faults with simulated gouge -- Laboratory studies on natural gouge: from the U.S. Geological Survey Dry Lake Valley No. 1 Well, San Andreas Fault Zone -- Pore volume changes during frictional sliding of simulated faults -- Fluid flow along very smooth joints at effective pressures up to 200 megapascals -- Thermomechanical properties of Galesville Sandstone -- Field mechanical properties of a jointed sandstone -- Case for low deviatoric stress in the lithosphere -- The origin of measured residual strains in crustal rocks -- Stress measurements via shallow overcoring near the San Andreas Fault -- Understanding faulting in the shallow crust: contributions of selected experimental and theoretical studies -- Probabilistic treatment of faulting in geologic media -- Strain in the ramp regions of two minor thrusts, Southern Canadian Rocky Mountains -- Analysis of a horizontal catastrophic landslide -- Tectonics of China: continental scale cataclastic flow -- A constitutive equation for one-dimensional transient and steady state flow of solids -- A nonlinear least squares technique for determining multiple-mechanism, high-temperature creep flow laws -- Wavefronts in transversely isotropic media -- A discussion of the approximation of subsurface (burial) stress conditions in laboratory experiments -- Reflections on the value of laboratory tests on rocks