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Rainbow Mountains: China's psychedelic landscape created when 2 tectonic plates collidedThe colorful swirls and stripes that characterize China's Rainbow Mountains would have remained hidden without the epic tectonic collision that created the Himalayas.
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North America is 'dripping' down into Earth's mantle, scientists discoverSeismic mapping of North America has revealed that an ancient slab of crust buried beneath the Midwest is causing the crust above it to "drip" and suck down rocks from across the continent.
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Lake Salda: The only place on Earth similar to Jezero crater on MarsLake Salda, in southwestern Turkey, bears a close resemblance to Mars' Jezero crater, which is currently being sampled by NASA's Perseverance rover.
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52-foot-high 'megaripples' from asteroid that killed the dinosaurs mapped deep beneath Louisiana in 3DBuried "megaripples" — some the size of five-story buildings — are helping scientists piece together the devastation following the impact that wiped out the nonavian dinosaurs.
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'This is by far the oldest': Scientists discover 3.47 billion-year-old meteorite impact crater in Australian outbackResearchers say they have found "unequivocal evidence" that a meteorite smashed into Earth 3.47 billion years ago, potentially affecting plate tectonics and creating conditions for life.
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Mount Roraima: The 'lost world' isolated for millions of years that Indigenous people call the 'house of the gods'Mount Roraima is a flat-topped formation with crystal-clear pools, waterfalls and a unique ecosystem that has been isolated from the surrounding savanna for millions of years.
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Giant, pyramid-like 'star dunes' slowly wander across Moroccan desertEarth from space This 2023 astronaut photo shows a series of slowly moving "star dunes" in the Erg Chebbi region of Morocco. Most of these massive structures are likely several centuries old.
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Savonoski Crater: The mysterious, perfectly round hole in Alaska that scientists can't explainThe Savonoski Crater is a round hole in Alaska's Katmai National Park that has defied scientific explanation ever since it was discovered.
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World's biggest underground thermal lake discovered in Albania at bottom of 330-foot abyssResearchers have returned to an underground thermal lake they first came across in 2021 in southern Albania and confirmed it is the largest of its kind known in the world.
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