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A colossal time gap where strata spanning more than ten centuries of millions of years vanished on a planetary scale.
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A tiny diamond from Brazil showed that hundreds of kilometers deep there is as much water as in all surface oceans combined.
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.
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Nearly six million years ago, the closure of the Strait of Gibraltar transformed one of the largest marine basins into a salt-covered desert canyon.