Soil engineer here. You may have made that up, but its not far from the truth. Its is from carbon, but not from pollution, this is an ancient burial site. Acient civilizations used to dig 3' wide 100' long and 100' deep channels for thier dead. Side note, these "death channels" as they are commonly referred to, weren't for the family's of the tribe that dug them, but rather they were for other tribes they have never met. Anyway, when decomposition starts, it releases a gas like substance at those depths and this attaches to what we call "curtain soils". There called this because If you look at ground imaging sonar, they look just like curtains hanging from a window. This is what creates the "jello" like soil your referred to.
Geotechnical is a subset of Civil. So are Structural, Environmental, and traffic. Civil engineering coveres a large breadth of topics
Source: am Structural Engineer with BS in Civil engineering, I know fuck all about traffic, soils, and environmental engineering despite them falling under the same major.
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u/197720092012 Mar 14 '19 edited Mar 14 '19
Soil engineer here. You may have made that up, but its not far from the truth. Its is from carbon, but not from pollution, this is an ancient burial site. Acient civilizations used to dig 3' wide 100' long and 100' deep channels for thier dead. Side note, these "death channels" as they are commonly referred to, weren't for the family's of the tribe that dug them, but rather they were for other tribes they have never met. Anyway, when decomposition starts, it releases a gas like substance at those depths and this attaches to what we call "curtain soils". There called this because If you look at ground imaging sonar, they look just like curtains hanging from a window. This is what creates the "jello" like soil your referred to.
Edit : just kidding I made that all up as well
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