On Fri, 19 Aug 2011, Mike Spencer wrote:
> 
>     What's the correct engineering term for the angle, characteristic
>     of a given medium, at which this occurs and/or at which the heap
>     stabilizes? 
> 
Angle of repose. Angle of subsidence is a popular usage variant but
doesn't appear in Wikipedia, and seems to be a conflation with
terms from mining, "angle of draw" being a term used in describing
surface subsidence resulting from collapsing mine caverns below.

 -Pete

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