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Rip-ups in liquefied sand

The smooth sediment is lake sand and silt homogenized by liquefaction, while the fragments of sediment with layers in them are rip-ups.  Though most rip-ups are the un-homogenized version of the same silty sand, the browner coarser rip-ups are actually composed of beach sediments from above the liquefied layer, and must have sunk down into it while it was fluid.
— The smooth sediment is lake sand and silt homogenized by liquefaction, while the fragments of sediment with layers in them are rip-ups. Though most rip-ups are the un-homogenized version of the same silty sand, the browner coarser rip-ups are actually composed of beach sediments from above the liquefied layer, and must have sunk down into it while it was fluid.

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