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SUMMARY:The origin and behaviour of deep ocean clay crusts (Subtitle: ...w
 hen biology meets engineering...) - Matthew Kuo (University of Cambridge)
DTSTART:20100423T150000Z
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CONTACT:Zelda Stuck
DESCRIPTION:This talk will describe the phenomenon of deep sea soft clay \
 ncrusts found off the west coast of Africa and the possible implications \
 nof its presence to hot-oil pipeline design. A discussion of the \npossibl
 e hypotheses for the crust's origin will be followed by the \npresentation
  of some surprising results from Cam-shear testing on \npipeline coating i
 nterfaces. Evidence for biological activity within \nthe crust in the form
  of burrowing invertebrates (worms) is presented \nwith a focus on the mec
 hanical behaviour of worm faecal pellets \nextracted from deep ocean cores
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LOCATION:Engineering Department - LR6
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