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Irresistible Holes in the Ground

Text of Afterdinner Speech Given at Mátraháza, Hungary, on September 10, 1998

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Deposit and Geoenvironmental Models for Resource Exploitation and Environmental Security

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I would like to continue my technical lecture on how the continental crust fractures under far-field tectonic stress, but my stress-strain ellipsoid transparencies that are so necessary to this discussion are missing from my lecture notes. I suspect that they have been stolen by someone in this room.

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Drew, L.J. (2002). Irresistible Holes in the Ground. In: Fabbri, A.G., Gaál, G., McCammon, R.B. (eds) Deposit and Geoenvironmental Models for Resource Exploitation and Environmental Security. Nato Science Partnership Subseries: 2 (closed), vol 80. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0303-2_20

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