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That sinking feeling

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Figure 1: The physical mechanism underlying velocity fluctuations of particles in a sediment.

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Brenner, M., Mucha, P. That sinking feeling. Nature 409, 569–571 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1038/35054641

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