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  2. Quicksand - Wikipedia

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    Quicksand and a warning sign about it at a gravel quarry in England Quicksand on the Thames. Quicksand (also known as sinking sand) is a colloid consisting of fine granular material (such as sand, silt or clay) and water. It forms in saturated loose sand when the sand is suddenly agitated.

  3. Sinkhole - Wikipedia

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    The Red Lake sinkhole in Croatia. A sinkhole is a depression or hole in the ground caused by some form of collapse of the surface layer. The term is sometimes used to refer to doline, enclosed depressions that are also known as shakeholes, and to openings where surface water enters into underground passages known as ponor, swallow hole or swallet.

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    The salvage of the Susan Rose, the fishing boat that ran aground in Point Pleasant Beach, was going as planned early Sunday when water started coursing into the 48-year-old commercial trawler with ...

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    The film – an adaptation of Rumaan Alam’s 2020 novel – follows Amanda and Clay Sandford, played by Julia Roberts and Ethan Hawke, who take their two children Rose and Archie ...

  8. Soil liquefaction - Wikipedia

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    Quicksand forms when water saturates an area of loose sand, and the sand is agitated. When the water trapped in the batch of sand cannot escape, it creates liquefied soil that can no longer resist force. Quicksand can be formed by standing or (upwards) flowing underground water (as from an underground spring), or by earthquakes.

  9. What to do if your car is sinking into a canal: Take a deep ...

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    A tow truck driver in scuba gear enters a canal north of 10th Avenue North at Florida Mango Road to hook it up a submerged car so it could be towed.