{"id":2142,"date":"2026-02-15T23:14:44","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T21:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tribology.info\/?p=2142"},"modified":"2026-02-15T23:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T21:52:08","slug":"researchers-want-to-find-out-why-quick-clay-is-so-unstable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tribology.info\/index.php\/2026\/02\/15\/researchers-want-to-find-out-why-quick-clay-is-so-unstable\/","title":{"rendered":"Researchers want to find out why quick clay is so unstable"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Part of the project group at PoreLab. Ren\u00e9 Tammen (partly hidden), Erika Eiser, Astrid Silvia de Wijn, Ge Li, Kamila Zab\u0142ocka, Klaartje de Weerdt, and Ali Amiri. Photo: PoreLab, NTNU<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Quick clay is actually an old seabed. The clay thus formed under water, but came to the surface when the landscape rose after the last ice age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, this camp was not so dangerous, because it was full of salt from the sea. Only when the salt in the clay was washed out of fresh water from rain and groundwater did it turn into quick clay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But what exactly makes quick clay so unstable?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An article was published about the subject in Eos Science News by AGU:
Eos org – Insights for Making Quick Clay Landslides Less Quick<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read more about it:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Norwegian SciTech News – Researchers want to find out why quick clay is so unstable<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

EurekAlert! – Researchers want to find out why quick clay is so unstable<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alpha Galileo – Researchers want to find out why quick clay is so unstable<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Norwegian articles:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gemini.no – Forskere vil finne ut hvorfor kvikkleiren er s\u00e5 ustabil<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Forskning.no – N\u00e5 vet forskerne mer om hvorfor kvikkleiren er s\u00e5 ustabil<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Parts of coastal Norway have marine deposits from the last glaciation that can suddenly slide, with catastrophic results. Researchers are working to understand the exact nature of the clay’s instability<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-clay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tribology.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tribology.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tribology.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tribology.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tribology.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tribology.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tribology.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tribology.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tribology.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tribology.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}