The angle of repose is also used to assess whether a mountain slope is going to collapse. This helps geologists or mountaineers know the risks of avalanches ahead of time!

It was a beautiful bluebird powder day off the backside of Snowbowl, Montana. A storm had deposited 10 inches of low-density snow and I was excited to drop into the run. As I approached the ridge ...

"Angle of Repose" won the Pulitzer Prize in 1972, but it was reviewed late and somewhat grudgingly in the New York Times, which made rather a point of trying to ignore his work.

Angle of repose measured with the GranuHeap and minimum diameter to achieve a flow with the GranuFlow for the five selected powders. Table 3. Examples of pictures taken using GranuHeap.

The prediction of the angle of repose for raised mounds of dry cohesive granular material is a long-standing problem in the natural sciences and in industry. Using numerical (particle-based ...

Pulitzer Prize novelist Wallace Stegner published a historical fiction work, “Angle of Repose” in 1971, chronicling four generations of family in which little seems at rest.