Talk:Quicksand

message: Hi
I've reinstated the granular materials category for quicksand.  From a granular
materials perspective, quicksand is qualitatively different from regular sand.
I reckon that quicksand is sufficiently conceptually distinct from sand to justify
its inclusion in the category.  Besides, a user browsing through the category might wish
to see quicksand there.
best wishes
Robinh 10:51, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Category

message: I'm a Civil Engineer and deal with soil mechanics regularly.  My understanding of quick sand matches Focht3's statements very close.  When I have some time I'm going try and dig up sources, and create a section for the geotechnical definition.  The article now is not useful to a student in a soils mechanics class from the perspective of technical detail and data.  This usefulness is my judge of the value of soils related articles. Zath42 (talk) 22:42, 2 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Geotechnical Definition 

message: Findings about the crucial role of salt in quicksand published in September 2005 in Nature: 
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v437/n7059/full/437635a.html
Cleaned up some slightly incorrect statements about the nature of quicksand and provided a more detailed explanation of the "trapping" mechanism.
The paragraph that was deleted / heavily modified follows below, just in case someone does not approve of my updates:
Quicksand is loose, water-logged soil that yields easily to weight or pressure.  It can be formed when sand, silt, clay, or other grainy soil is saturated or supersaturated by water flowing from below ground (such as from an underground spring) with enough pressure to separate and suspend the grains. The undisturbed sand often is or appears to be solid until some shock or sudden increase in pressure, such as a person stepping on it, causes it to liquify and lose its friction.
Also, maybe the "liquefaction in quicksand" section of the Soil liquefaction entry should be updated.
much love and many blessings =)
Iamthepattern 12:50, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Given the new information about how quicksand works, what changes in terms of the methods of how to rescue a person caught in it, and what are the methods that a lone individual would use to extract himself? GBC 22:39, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Function of salt in quicksand 

message: It says in the article "It is unclear why so many television shows and movies from the 1980s depicted quicksand as such a threat.  There are no reported deaths from quicksand inhalation." Why only from the 80s? There are loads of other depictions from other years. Also, There are no reported deaths from quicksand inhalation. Well probably not because it would act like a 1iquid and drown them. Think outside the box 13:14, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Not just movies in the 80s, the new Indiana Jones movie has quicksand (I mean the new one that just came out, ... crystal skulls ...) JayKeaton (talk) 12:31, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Quicksand in 80s movies

message: What's a good strategy to maximize one's chances of survival? Is it better to give up one's breath early to make use of the dead-man's float or is it better to save one's breath and float on one's back? --Thelazyleo (talk) 18:38, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Surviving Quicksand 

message: A 1950s article in Scientific American about quicksand also mentions a variation called an alkali bog, prevalent in the western United States. This version of quicksand does not involve any water, rather, salt seeps produce a condition -- which may also occur on inclines -- similar to quicksand, but with the consistency of soft soap. It is possible to identify it by whitish marks on otherwise normal-coloured sand. Although the article states that an individual must move far faster to escape, and that such bogs are littered with the bones of animals that did not "move fast enough", it does not state whether the density of an alkali bog is low enough to engulf a human being. I do have photocopies of the entire article, but I do not know at this time where I have it stored. GBC (talk) 09:22, 13 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alkali bogs 

message: Well I am a 5th grader and would like to know if quicksand is considered a landform. I wish to ask this and would like someone to answer it  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.108.89.65 (talk) 20:31, 4 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi, this page is for discussing improvements to the article.  A good place to ask questions is Wikipedia:Reference desk/Science.  I am sure they will help you there. SpinningSpark 20:30, 1 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Questions & Answers 

message: Hi everyone, i'd like to insert this diagram in the page, if you think it could prove useful. 
--Mabb88 (talk) 18:33, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Diagram

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