can you have quicksand in a cave?

[Gamer0151]

It's for my story project and i can't find an answer on Google.
Any help will be appreciated.

[L1qu1dator]

There was one in that "King Scorpion" movie with the Rock.

[Gamer0151]

Originally posted by L1qu1dator:

There was one in that "King Scorpion" movie with the Rock.

Is that movie some kinda true story?
I don't have a clue what King Scorpion is.

[L1qu1dator]

Originally posted by Gamer0151:

Originally posted by L1qu1dator:

There was one in that "King Scorpion" movie with the Rock.

Is that movie some kinda true story?

lol
If it worked for their story...

[White]

I don't see why not, since caves can have a lot of moisture. But it sounds pretty unlikely...

The cave roof can collapse and thats a sink hole... So why would the cave floor errode to quick sand like and not the roof. If it water currents... maybe if it pushed everything into a deep hole and the hole filled with the soft sediments and pooled water...but over flow...shrug,

[ʟǟֆȶʟɨʋɨռɢքօɛȶ]

of course you can, it's a story, and even if it's not physically possible for whatever reason, nobody is going to care

[White]

I suppose....What if its a cave by the coast that has waves depositing sand and water into it on the regular? Maybe that could have quick sand areas.

[Gamer0151]

Well, thanks for the feedback :)

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Ask Dirge from shadow of the colossus

[MoonC A T]

Originally posted by Gamer0151:

It's for my story project and i can't find an answer on Google.
Any help will be appreciated.

Who cares, just put it in your story.

[skOsH♥]

Caves usually have dusty / sandy areas in parts of them

And they're usually formed from water

Some caves do have underground streams

So I would say, yes.

[$2 Hero]

Yes because most caves are built via rain so there is almost always a stream of some kind.

[Gary Flank]

I don't know, let me look.



Nope, none here.

[Kamiyama]

There are places in the desert where sand dunes can collapse if you touch them and they could cover you but that's more of an avalanche of sand than the idea of "quicksand" pushed in hollywood movies.

https://youtu.be/Wlzi8vPG59g

When they collapse it's like a wave and looks sort of like flowing water.

Any type of mud you can think of will be more dense than water so you can either swim or wade through.it. It would be easier than swimming in water because the mud would be more buoyant. So a lot of movies where someone just steps into "quicksand" and it engulfs them and they sink down into it is just BS.

If there was a liquid less dense than water, it would be another story. Like filling a vat with aerogel or something and then jumping into it. You would just fall to the bottom. There wouldn't be enough buoyancy for you to swim to the surface.

Or say, liquid helium. But you would freeze to death before you would suffocate. Also it would explode because your body temperature would make it boil.

[Kamiyama]

Or crawl. I guess you could get stuck in mud.

But you're not going to sink to your doom.

[𝓜𝓸𝓸𝓷⏾𝓛𝓲𝓽]

I would suggest asking in a more scientific forum and doing some research into your own, with regard to how quicksand forms. Technically you can do what is needed for a story to work, but if you are aiming for realism/good explanations, then the previous suggestion would be your best bet I think.