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The Angle of Repose

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Bailey, D. (1996) Angle of repose

Columbia University (accessed December 2, 2004) Mass Wasting

Hawai'i Space Grant College, Hawai'i Institute of Geophysics and Planetology, and Univerity of Hawai'i (1996) Piles of Fire.

Hornbaker, D.J. et al. (1997) What keeps standcastles standing? Nature, vol. 387, p. 765 (accessed December 2, 2004).

Moller, L. (2003) Angle of Repose of Martian Dust Experiment.

Nelson, S.A. (2003) Mass Wasting.

Physics Van, University of Illinois Physics Department (accessed December 3, 2006) Sand Piles

Ritter, et al. (2002) pp. 92-99 (your textbook!).

Schlumberger (2005) Angle of Repose Results.

SES (Science Education Solutions) (2006) Landslides - Slope Stability

Smith, A.W.S. and A.C. Trembanis (accessed December 2, 2004) Beach Hardness Variation

Zhou, A.C. et al. (2001) Numerical investigation of the angle of repose of monosized spheres. Physical Review E, 64, 021301 (8 pages). (click on "view PDF" to read the entire article)


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Last modified December 2, 2005