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Bring it down

Photo of the flume from a bottom to top angle.

Photograph by Tim Forbes

Unstable hillsides can slide away fast, so Lisa Tauskela keeps pouring tons of soil down a massive flume to understand how.

카지노 게임 컬렉션We카지노 게임 컬렉션re doing large-scale testing,카지노 게임 컬렉션 says the second-year master카지노 게임 컬렉션s student in civil engineering.

카지노 게임 컬렉션We fill it [the soil] with water so it카지노 게임 컬렉션s nice and wet, and open the door of the flume, which is two storeys tall.카지노 게임 컬렉션

The wet mix whooshes down and spreads out on a flat area, 카지노 게임 컬렉션and we measure everything 카지노 게임 컬렉션 how fast is it going, how far does it go, what shape is it in? And then more science-y stuff 카지노 게임 컬렉션 what is the water pressure within it? How does this pressure develop? How does it go away?카지노 게임 컬렉션

It all relates to British Columbia카지노 게임 컬렉션s landslides last summer. 카지노 게임 컬렉션We카지노 게임 컬렉션re basically recreating those landslides in the lab.카지노 게임 컬렉션

카지노 게임 컬렉션Some [in B.C.] didn카지노 게임 컬렉션t go very far, and some went really far.카지노 게임 컬렉션

Differences in internal water pressure may be the reason, but those are hard to measure in the field. It카지노 게임 컬렉션s easier in the lab.

카지노 게임 컬렉션Every single debris flow in B.C. was different,카지노 게임 컬렉션 even where two were close together, says Ms. Tauskela.

카지노 게임 컬렉션It카지노 게임 컬렉션s a relatively new field.카지노 게임 컬렉션

There카지노 게임 컬렉션s currently little understanding of what makes one landslide more dangerous than another. Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s work could change that.

Ms. Tauskela카지노 게임 컬렉션s group ran 20 large tests, each involving four students hand-filling a container with tons of silt, sand, and gravel. Luckily, Ms. Tauskela does triathlons.

카지노 게임 컬렉션We were shovelling 80 buckets, each 50 pounds. I didn카지노 게임 컬렉션t go to the gym for four months because I didn카지노 게임 컬렉션t need to.카지노 게임 컬렉션

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