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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Areas underlain by strong solid bedrock tend to experience much less shaking than those underlain by unconsolidated river or lake sediments.
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Groundwater is stored in the open spaces within rocks and within unconsolidated sediments.
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Why is earthquake damage likely to be more severe for buildings built on unconsolidated sediments as opposed to solid rock?
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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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