Dec. 12 (UPI) --Firefighters and rescue teams conducted an unusual operation when a hiker ended up stuck in waist-deep mud that was described as "essentially quicksand." The Summersville Fire ...

For a building to sink six inches in eighteen years causes some concern at M.I.T. If the science of soil mechanics had been developed earlier, the sinking ... the piles sink. Quicksand is thus ...

Crossing both sand flats and mud flats ... they won’t keep sinking until out of sight, even if it is a particularly deep patch. What to do if you’re stuck in quicksand If you do find yourself ...