At a microscopic level, the mud contains a balanced mixture of fine clay and silt particles, cohesive organic materials, and a touch of angular sand grains, all suspended in water. This unique ...

Miles thick, that ice retreated thousands of years ago and an almost unfathomable amount of mud and sand flowed south through ... to 75,000 cubic feet of fresh water and sediment from a structure ...

"The sand stops and it becomes the mud, and people want to get into the water and so they go down and think nothing of the mud. "Then they start squelching through it and think it's all a bit of ...