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10 Facts about San Andreas Fault
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Soil Mapping May Indicate Success of Brush Control Method
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A New Way to Understand the World's Rarest Minerals
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Representative photo Humans have made enough plastic since the second world war to coat the Earth entirely in clingfilm, an internatio...
How Does Earth's Continental Crust Form?
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Researcher discovers ancestor of biggest bird ever
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10 Interesting Facts About Geodes
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Remote predictions of fluid flow in fractures possible with new finding
A graph of the scaling relationship between fluid flow and fracture stiffness is shown. The shape of the symbol indicates the fracture l...