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The cushioning of water gives quicksand, and other liquefied sediments, a spongy, fluid-like texture. Objects in liquefied sand sink to the level [[Category:Sediments]] ...

...ple) fossilized [[Hominidae|hominid]] remains by association with volcanic sediments (the fossils themselves are not directly dated) ...

...remediate or contain contaminants in soil, groundwater, surface water, or sediments." The United Nations Environment Programme defines phytotechnology as, "the ...

...nt transport and morphological changes, relevant properties of the sea bed sediments, water and ecosystem properties are needed. ...

* Underwater [[rock blasting]], or [[dredging]] of softer sediments, to clear an area of a navigational hazard, to excavate a canal or basin, o ...

...microbial fuel cells that produce energy from organisms in ocean seafloor sediments. ...

...density silts to loose gravels, to dense, highly compacted sands. Granular sediments may be subject to liquefaction if strongly disturbed, as by earthquakes, cy Methane can occur at shallow depths in delta sediments with significant quantities of organic matter, and in arctic silts. These v ...

Samples of seafloor sediments and rock can be collected using grabs, coring devices, ROUVs and divers. Co ...ng and Characterizing Near-Surface Migration of Hydrocarbons within Marine Sediments|title=Offshore Technology Conference|year=2001|last1=Abrams|first1=M.A.|las ...

...can be used for industrial and agriculture applications. The concentrated sediments are supplied to press-filters to further decrease their moisture content. ...

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...l rocks to form carbonates that were deposited as sediments. Water-related sediments have been found that date from as early as 3.8 billion years ago.<ref>B. Wi [[Proxy (climate)#Lake and ocean sediments|Ancient sediments]] in the [[Gabon]] dating from between about 2.15 and 2.08 billion years ag ...

...dredging is also another method of land reclamation. It is the removal of sediments and debris from the bottom of a body of water. It is commonly used for main ...of the Southern Hangzhou Bay Area from the Mid-Tang Through the Qing,” in Sediments of Time: Environment and Society in Chinese History, ed. Mark Elvin and [[T ...

...n [[Awash River]], Ethiopia, descendant of the Palaeo-Awash, source of the sediments in which the oldest Stone Age tools have been found]] ...nown stone tools had been found at several sites at [[Gona, Ethiopia]], on sediments of the paleo-[[Awash River]], which serve to date them. All the tools come ...

...n situ and ex situ remediation technologies for PCB-contaminated soils and sediments and obstacles for full-scale application |journal=Science of the Total Envi ...

...are temporary over geologic time scales, as they will slowly fill in with sediments or spill out of the basin containing them. Many lakes are [[controlled lake ...

...are temporary over geologic time scales, as they will slowly fill in with sediments or spill out of the basin containing them. ...

...p;well 6:Injection&nbsp;well 7:Hot water to district heating 8:Porous&nbsp;sediments 9:Observation&nbsp;well 10:Crystalline&nbsp;bedrock]] ...

...thrust from the fins directly to the rear, which minimises disturbance of sediments on the bottom, and reduces the risk of striking delicate benthic organisms ...

...ffective in removing up to 90% of nutrients and chemicals and up to 80% of sediments from the runoff.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2015-08-21|title=Soak Up the Rain: Per ...

...elaxation, and grain-to-grain shearing in saturated, unconsolidated marine sediments, [[Journal of the Acoustical Society of America|J. Acoust. Soc. Am.]] '''10 ...