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Quick clay, also known as Leda clay and Champlain Sea clay in Canada, is any of several distinctively sensitive glaciomarine clays found in Canada, Norway, Russia, Sweden, Finland, the United States, and other locations around the world.[1][2][3] The clay is so unstable that when a mass of quick clay is subjected to sufficient stress, the material behavior may drastically change from that of a particulate material to that of a watery fluid. Landslides occur because of the sudden soil liquefaction caused by external solicitations such as vibrations induced by an earthquake, or massive rainfalls.[1][2][3]
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- ^ a b Clague, John J.; Stead, Douglas (2012-08-23). Landslides: Types, Mechanisms and Modeling. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-139-56039-9.