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Geology
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In the Russian Arctic, humanity dug the deepest hole on the planet and found boiling water and gas where science believed impossible
Geology
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These 4,400-million-year-old mineral capsules proved that the early planet was not a magma hell, but a world with liquid water
Geology
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An unusual tectonic accident pushed hundreds of kilometers of oceanic crust into the mountains of Oman, exposing the boundary of the planet's interior
Engineering
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How the 1995 Kobe earthquake pushed apart the towers of the world's longest suspension bridge before its cables were installed
Geology
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On the walls of the Grand Canyon and across various continents, Cambrian strata rest directly on ancient basement rocks, hiding a fifth of the planet's history.
Geology
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How a rock block of thousands of square kilometers moved at highway speeds over a nearly flat slope.
Geology
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Extreme friction along geological faults generates temperatures exceeding 1,100 °C that melt bedrock in the blink of an eye.
Geology
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The deepest hole in history revealed that theoretical models of the Earth's crust were completely wrong.
Geology
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Two billion years ago, an underground deposit in Gabon operated as a nuclear power plant for hundreds of millennia without human intervention.
Engineering
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From the subsoil of major cities to deep mines, engineers cool the earth to sub-zero temperatures to excavate without collapsing cities.
Geology
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Microscopic fragments dating back 4,400 million years proved that our planet cooled much earlier than believed.
Geology
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In southern Iran, colossal salt domes breach the Earth's crust and slide down arid slopes in an unusual display of active diapirism.