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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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How the physics of capillarity overrides the weight of water to sculpt crystal labyrinths deep inside caves
Geology
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Eight hundred meters below the Atlantic, an unusual chemical reaction between the ocean and Earth's mantle raises sixty-meter monoliths.
Geology
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How slow geochemical crystallization sculpted gigantic three-meter orbs in Paleocene mud long before being unearthed by the waves.
Geology
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A discovery inside gems from the mantle revealed the natural existence of an exotic phase of water that remains crystallized at room temperature.
Geology
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When a celestial electrical discharge strikes desert sand, extreme heat shapes a glassy sculpture in a fraction of a second.
Geology
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More than 2,400 million years ago, the first biological oxygen triggered a colossal rust precipitation that covered the seafloor and formed most of the iron we mine today.
Geology
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A near-miraculous thermal equilibrium 300 meters underground allowed the development of the planet's largest selenite beams.
Geology
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In the Great Rift Valley, this Tanzanian colossus defies the laws of volcanism with magma as fluid as water that turns snow-white as it cools.
Nature
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A fleeting touch with its leaves is enough to embed thousands of microscopic silica hairs loaded with a neurotoxin that defies time.
Geology
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A colossal time gap where strata spanning more than ten centuries of millions of years vanished on a planetary scale.