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- Quicksand is a colloid hydrogel consisting of fine granular material (such as sand, silt or clay), and water. Quicksand forms in saturated loose sand when the sand is suddenly agitated. When water in the sand cannot escape, it creates a liquefied soil that loses strength and cannot support weight. Quicksand can form in standing water or in upwards flowing water (as from an artesian spring).
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The Ground Beneath The aquifer is the result of the dissolution of carbonate rocks by slightly acidic rainwater that seeps into the ground through fractures and joints. Once underground, the water slowly dissolves the soluble rocks into subterranean passages, caverns and caves. The result of this process is defined as a karst landscape. The mostly-dormant part of the Manitou Springs aquifer, now above the water table, is a cave system located north of the city called “Cave of the Winds”.
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Subterrene Trebelev subterrene (Soviet Union) A Subterrene (Latin: Subterrina, Russian: подземная лодка) is a vehicle that travels underground (through solid rock/soil) much as a submarine travels underwater, either by mechanical drilling, or by melting its way forward.
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Drow Within the context of the Dungeons & Dragons game, the drow were forced underground in what is now known as the Underdark after the great war amongst the elves, a vast system of caverns and tunnels spanning much of the continent.
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Quicksand Quicksand is a mixture of water and sand or silt. It has the characteristic of thixotropy: it looks solid, but when pressure is applied it liquifies (acts like a liquid).
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Fill dirt Fill dirt is usually subsoil (soil from beneath the top soil) and underlying soil parent material which has little soil organic matter or biological activity.
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- Coronary heart disease (CHD) is a disease in which a waxy substance called plaque (plak) builds up inside the coronary arteries. These arteries supply oxygen-rich blood to your heart muscle. When plaque builds up in the arteries, the condition is called atherosclerosis (ATH-er-o-skler-O-sis).
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- The underlayment is the sheet of material that is installed on top of a subfloor in order to act as a base for the laminate sheets or tiles that you are installing.he underlayment is the sheet of material that is installed on top of a subfloor in order to act as a base for the laminate sheets or tiles that you are installing.
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Sudd The Sudd (a s-Sudd or al-Sudd) is a vast swamp in South Sudan, formed by the White Nile 's Baḥr al-Jabal section. The Arabic word sudd is derived from sadd (سد), meaning barrier or obstruction.The term the sudd has come to refer to any large solid floating vegetation island or mat.The area which the swamp covers is one of the world's largest wetlands and the largest freshwater wetland in the Nile basin.ecause of the Sudd swamp, the water from the southwestern tributaries (the Bahr el Ghazal system) for all practical purposes does not reach the main river and is lost through evaporation and transpiration.
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- Coronary heart disease (CHD) is a disease in which a waxy substance called plaque builds up inside the coronary arteries. These arteries supply oxygen-rich blood to your heart muscle.oronary heart disease (CHD) is a disease in which a waxy substance called plaque builds up inside the coronary arteries. These arteries supply oxygen-rich blood to your heart muscle.
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Quicksand The cushioning of water gives quicksand, and other liquefied sediments, a spongy, fluidlike texture. Objects in liquefied sand sink to the level at which the weight of the object is equal to the weight of the displaced soil/water mix and the submerged object floats due to its buoyancy.eople falling into (and, unrealistically, being submerged in) quicksand or a similar substance is a trope of adventure fiction, notably in movies. According to Slate, this gimmick had its heyday in the 1960s, when almost 3% of all films showed someone sinking in mud, sand, or clay.
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sudd Definition of sudd. : floating vegetable matter that forms obstructive masses especially in the upper White Nile.
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The Sudd The Sudd (Arabic sadd, barrier) is a vast swamp formed by the White Nile in southern Sudan.Its size is variable, but during the wet season it may be over 130,000 km² in area. In the Sudd, the river flows through multiple tangled channels in a pattern that changes each year.ydrogeologists in the early part of the 20th century proposed digging a canal east of the Sudd which would divert water from the Bahr al Jabal above the Sudd to a point farther down the White Nile, bypassing the swamps and carrying the White Nile's water's directly to the main channel of the river.
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Aquifer An aquifer is an underground layer of water-bearing permeable rock, rock fractures or unconsolidated materials (gravel, sand, or silt) from which groundwater can be extracted using a water well. The study of water flow in aquifers and the characterization of aquifers is called hydrogeology. Related terms include aquitard, which is a bed of low permeability along an aquifer, and aquiclude (or aquifuge), which is a solid, impermeable area underlying or overlying an aquifer.
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It's a Solid... It's a Liquid... It's Oobleck! But dip your hand slowly into the mix, and see what happens—your fingers slide in as easily as through water. Moving slowly gives the cornstarch particles time to move out of the way. Oobleck and other pressure-dependent substances (such as Silly Putty and quicksand) are not liquids such as water or oil. They are known as non-Newtonian fluids. This substance's funny name comes from a Dr. Seuss book called Bartholomew and the Oobleck.
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- What is Subsidence? Subsidence is the vertical, downward movement of a building foundation; caused by a loss of support of the ground beneath the foundations. Subsidence results in cracking and can cause significant property damage.
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Why Do You Sink in Quicksand? Quicksand is denser than water and the human body is less dense than quicksand, which means you can actually float more easily in quicksand than a swimming pool. The worst thing to do if you fall into quicksand is thrash around. Instead, just relax.
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- You may never see the plywood that lies underneath your flooring, but the type you choose can make a big difference. Plywood is a popular subfloor material for laying down... You may never see the plywood that lies underneath your flooring, but the type you choose can make a big difference. Plywood is a popular subfloor material for laying down carpeting, tile, hardwood and other types of flooring. In some cases plywood is used as an underlayment and placed on on top of the subfloor to create a smooth durable surface for installing the final flooring material.
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- Fortunately, this kind of quicksand is rarely dangerous. The action of the waves only creates a quicksand patch a few inches deep, not enough to trap even a child. Quicksand that forms in a patch more that a few inches deep, however, can be dangerous.eing sucked into quicksand is a staple of many 'B' movies, but is this phenomenon of nature really as dangerous as it is portrayed? Jack Pickett and his friend Fred Stahl, both college students, decided to spend the day looking for parasitic plants in the swampland south of Florida's Lake Okeechobee.
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- Soil is a thin layer of loose sediments (usually very fine-grained) and organic matter that lies above a layer of partly-weathered broken rock (called subsoil). Subsoil lies above the bedrock. The term regolith describes all of the loose, incoherent sequence of rock fragments, sand, alluvium, and soil that rests upon solid rock (also known as bedrock). Soil layers. Soils are made up of three layers and are thickest where they are older and in warm and wet environments. The layers are called horizons.
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subsoil (Agriculture) (tr) to plough (land) to a depth below the normal ploughing level and so break up the subsoil. ˈsubˌsoiler n. sub•soil (ˈsʌbˌsɔɪl) n. the bed or stratum of earth immediately under the surface soil. Also called undersoil. [1790–1800] sub·soil (sŭb′soil′) The layer of earth below the surface soil. subsoil Past participle: subsoiled
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How Quicksand Works and How to Escape its clutches Quicksand typically has a density of 125 pounds per cubic foot (2 g/cm 3). This means you can float on quicksand more easily than on water. First thing you should do is drop your bags or gear. The less weight you pull, the better. Also, try pulling off your shoes as these create friction when you try to pull out of the quicksand.