unconsolidated
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The products of weathering and erosion are the unconsolidated materials that we find around us on slopes, beneath glaciers, in stream valleys, on beaches, and in deserts.
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An aquifer is defined as a body of rock or unconsolidated sediment that has sufficient permeability to allow water to flow through it.
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The key reason for this is that Mexico City was built largely on the unconsolidated and water-saturated sediment of former Lake Texcoco.
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As shown in Figure 9.5, typical P-wave velocities are between 0.5 km/s and 2.5 km/s in unconsolidated sediments, and between 3.0 km/s and 6.5 km/s in solid crustal rocks.
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As the first hint of daybreak brightened the eastern horizon, the rocky, terraced terrain we’d been ascending gave way to a broad gully of unconsolidated snow.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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