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According to strict geological definitions, a mineral must be a naturally occurring, inorganic solid with a definite chemical composition and crystalline…
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Researchers slice crystalline structures impossibly thin just to watch them fracture light into wildly chaotic patterns under a microscope. It is an intensely…
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Harry Hess wasn't just hunting U-boats during WWII; he left his ship's sonar running and accidentally mapped flat-topped underwater mountains called guyots.…
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