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Columnar basalt at Cape Stolbchaty, Russia
... that more than 90 percent of all
volcanic rock
on Earth is
basalt
(example pictured)
?
... that the almost 50-million-year-old fossil leaves of
Comptonia columbiana
(example pictured)
preserve evidence of moth feeding?
... that
Brown Lake
is of cultural and spiritual significance to the Quandamooka people?
... that the fictional battle Operation Yashima, displayed in the
Neon Genesis Evangelion
episode "Rei II"
, inspired a real unofficial campaign in Japan to conserve electricity after the
2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami
?
... that more than 400 millimetres (16 in) of rain was recorded in northern Turkey on 11 August 2021,
causing catastrophic flooding
?
... that the oldest rock in the
Eastern Block of the North China Craton
is a 3.8- to 3.6-billion-year-old
trondhjemitic
piece of
gneiss
?
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