21. MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF BASALT CORES FROM .
MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF BASALT, HOLE 504B Ultimate Compressive Strength Our values are consistent with those published for a somewhat similar rock, the Cuerbio basalt (Friedman et al., 1979, table 3). Strength increases consistently with increasing confining pressure as predicted by the CoulombMohr criterion (Handin, 1969).