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Real geomaterials are extremely nonhomogeneous. They are composed of many pieces (grains) of crystalline matter cemented into a soft or rigid matrix with pores and cracks often filled with fluids and gases. Describing such a medium is complicated but it can be simplified if the motions or flow patterns of the geomaterials have length scales, L , that are much larger than the characteristic sizes, d , of individual grains.
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Nikolaevskiy, V.N. (1996). Deformation and Fracture of Geomaterials. In: Geomechanics and Fluidodynamics. Theory and Applications of Transport in Porous Media, vol 8. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8709-9_1
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