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sand boil

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sand boil [′san ‚bȯil]
(electricity)

sand boil
The ejection of sand and water resulting from piping.


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Within approximately 500m corridor of west coast of Sumatra from city of Banda Aceh to Meulaboh, some trace of sand boils caused by liquefactions identified after the Mega Aceh earthquake.
This is the basis for a major study planned for the Imperial Valley in southern California where sand boils erupted and riverbanks collapsed during a 1981 earthquake.
Paleoseismic evidence of prehistoric earthquakes includes offsets in geologic formations found in exhumed fault zones, evidence of rapid uplift or subsidence near coastal areas, laterally offset stream valleys, and liquefaction artifacts such as sand boils.
 
 
 
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