Released by way of the yank Geophysical Union as a part of the Geophysical Monograph sequence, quantity 49.
The papers provided during this monograph are in keeping with displays made on the symposium on "Slow Deformation and Transmission of pressure within the Earth" on the XIXth basic meeting assembly of the overseas Union of Geodesy and Geophysics. The symposium used to be hung on the campus of the collage of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada on August fifteenth and seventeenth 1987.
The editors wish to thank the authors, reviewers and AGU employees who contributed to the book of this monograph.
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