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  2. Quick clay - Wikipedia

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    These landslides are retrogressive, meaning they usually start at water, and progress upwards at slow walking speed, although particularly deep quick clay layers on sloped regions may collapse much more rapidly, or in very large chunks that can slide at great speed due to the liquid nature of the disturbed clay. They have been known to ...

  3. List of tectonic plate interactions - Wikipedia

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    Back-arc basins can form from extension in the overriding plate, in response to the displacement of the subducting slab at some oceanic trenches. This paradoxically results in divergence which was only incorporated in the theory of plate tectonics in 1970, but still results in net destruction when summed over major plate boundaries. [2]

  4. Woman gets stuck on cruise's slide suspended over the ocean - AOL

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    Woman gets stuck on cruise's slide suspended over the ocean. A guest on a Norwegian Cruise Line ship got stuck in the closed-tubed, double-looped ride that sends sliders out over the ocean. A ...

  5. Aquatic sill - Wikipedia

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    Aquatic sills are common in fjords, limiting their water exchange with the ocean. After the last ice age , approximately 18,000 years ago, continental glaciers extended to the continental shelves and created U-shaped glacial valleys , with long narrow openings that rise upward near the outer shelf, thereby creating sills.

  6. List of unexplained sounds - Wikipedia

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    The dictionary definition of things that go bump in the night at Wiktionary The Hum; Mistpouffers or skyquakes, a phenomenon generally occurring near large bodies of water. Sound has been compared to distant cannon fire or thunder.

  7. 10 weird things that can kill you almost instantly - AOL

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    The sea creatures are one of the most poisonous fish. They also really hate it when people step on them. When that happens, the fish immediately release venom into whatever disturbed it.

  8. Glossary of nautical terms (A–L) - Wikipedia

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    1. One side of a vessel above the waterline. 2. All the guns on one side of a warship or mounted (in rotating turrets or barbettes) so as to be able to fire on the same side of a warship. 3. The simultaneous firing of all the guns on one side of a warship or able to fire on the same side of a warship. 4.

  9. A chunk of Rancho Palos Verdes is sliding into the sea. Can ...

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    A decades-long landslide has reshaped a 240-acre part of Palos Verdes Peninsula known as Portuguese Bend. Rancho Palos Verdes is mounting a plan to slow it.