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Soil liquefaction — describes the behavior of loose saturated unconsolidated soils, i.e. loose sands, which go from a solid state to have the consistency of a heavy liquid, or reach a liquefied state as a consequence of increasing porewater pressures, and thus… … Wikipedia
Bioirrigation — Bioirrigation, or simply irrigation, refers to the process of benthic organisms flushing their burrows with overlying seawater. The exchange of dissolved substances between the porewater and overlying seawater that results is an important process … Wikipedia
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