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Clues:
1. By this spring, prolonged drought had dropped the water level in this desert lake by nearly 100 feet, leaving it half empty. 2. The most common rock type in the area formed from a sand sea during the Jurassic period. 3. More recent sediments are filling the dammed lake at a rate that some say could fill it within 100 years. Others argue it could take 700 years.
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Answer:
Lake Powell in Utah. Photo is by Bruce Molnia of USGS and was supplied
courtesy of the American Geological Institute archives. |
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Clues:
1. The object in this photograph weighs more than 50 tons, has a volume of 9 cubic meters and hit the ground about 80,000 years ago. 2. It is made up of 82 percent iron, 16 percent nickel and 1 percent cobalt as well as various trace elements. Its main minerals are kamacite and taenite. Thin sections show intergrowth of the kamacite and taenite needles in Widmanstätten structure. 3. It is located in the world’s second most sparsely populated country. .
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Answer: Hoba Meteorite, Namibia |
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