unconsolidated
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Figure 14.4 shows a cross-section of a series of rocks and unconsolidated materials, some of which might serve as aquifers and others as aquitards or confining layers.
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This is especially true for unconsolidated materials, like those shown in Figure 15.4, but it also applies to bodies of rock.
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Mass wasting, which is synonymous with “slope failure,” is the failure and downslope movement of rock or unconsolidated materials in response to gravity.
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Groundwater is stored in the open spaces within rocks and within unconsolidated sediments.
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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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