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The role played by earth sciences in the scientific community has changed considerably during this century. Since the revolutionary discoveries of global processes such as plate tectonics, there has been an increasing awareness of just how fundamental many of the mechanisms which dominate in these processes depend on the physical properties of the materials of which the earth is made. One of the prime objectives of mineral sciences is now to understand and predict these properties in a truly quantitative manner. The macroscopic properties which are of most immediate interest in this context...

Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute, Cambridge, U.K., July 27-August 8, 1987

This book provides the state-of-the art of the present understanding of avalanche phenomena in both functional materials and geophysics.