{"id":174,"date":"2009-10-18T14:18:12","date_gmt":"2009-10-18T21:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nerdhive.org\/glob\/?p=174"},"modified":"2012-05-24T22:41:30","modified_gmt":"2012-05-25T05:41:30","slug":"need-more-words-for-sand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/?p=174","title":{"rendered":"Need more words for sand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A point of interest I forgot to mention during my Long Beach posts: you know how the Eskimos supposedly have fifty trillion words for snow? We could use some more words for sand too. I encountered lots of different characters of sand at the beach, including one that was very novel to me (last in the list below).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/sands.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-178\" src=\"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/sands-320x265.jpg\" alt=\"sands\" width=\"320\" height=\"265\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Also lots of interesting sand shapes and patterns formed by the interaction of wind, waves and different weights of sand. I put together a collage of some of them in the picture above. Looking at some of the shapes sand can form, it&#8217;s really easy to believe there was once water flowing on the surface of Mars.<\/p>\n<p>I found:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Soft, dry sand, often wind-blown into rills or small dunes.<\/li>\n<li>Soft, dry sand under a crust of damp, hard-packed sand.<\/li>\n<li>Fine sand so water-saturated it flows like a slurry.<\/li>\n<li>Damp sand so hard-packed by the waves that it won&#8217;t accept footprints.<\/li>\n<li>Semi-quick sand that seems solid when you walk on it, but stand still for a few seconds and you start to sink in.<\/li>\n<li>A one to two inch thick layer of packed sand above an inch-thick layer of slurry, and more hard sand under that. Walking on it feels like walking on a thick rubber mat. I discovered its nature accidentally by leaning on my walking stick, only to have it suddenly drop after slowly sinking for a few seconds. The slurry underneath can instantly switch between fluid &#8220;water with sand in it&#8221; and solid &#8220;sand with water in it&#8221; states in response to pressure. I&#8217;ve never encountered this before, and it was fascinating.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A point of interest I forgot to mention during my Long Beach posts: you know how the Eskimos supposedly have fifty trillion words for snow? We could use some more words for sand too. I encountered lots of different characters of sand at the beach, including one that was very novel to me (last in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2194,"href":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions\/2194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}