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Cold, Bold & Old: 10 Monumental Volcanic Plugs
Volcanoes have caused incalculable destruction throughout history but even the most massive lava blaster has a heart. Volcanic plugs (the eroded cores of extinct volcanoes) are all that remain of some...
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Grimsvotn: Iceland’s Most Active Volcano Wakes With a Roar
Grimsvotn, Iceland’s most active volcano, is up to its old tricks but unlike the ashy eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in 2010, air traffic is not expected to be affected. This will make it easier for...
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Rock Star: Trekking To California’s Vasquez Rocks Park
That tilted rock formation… now where have I seen that before? On TV and in the movies, most likely. Vasquez Rocks Park, just north of Los Angeles, California, has been a favorite “otherworldly” film...
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The Gates of Hell: Forever-Burning Crater of Poison
Turkmenistan is known for its offbeat tourist attractions, but one of the most unusual is the hole in the ground known as The Gates of Hell. The hole, an impressive 230 feet across, is filled with...
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Ahead Of The Curve: Hudson Bay’s Semicircular Nastapoka Arc
Billions of years of bombardment by space rocks of all sizes have left our planet remarkably unscathed, yet if one looks closely the traces of enormous ancient impact craters are all too obvious. Or...
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Blowing Off Steam: The World’s 10 Most Amazing Geysers
Geysers have entranced observers from time immemorial with their sudden yet often predictable appearances, explosive power and the ability to conjure up rainbows on a cloudless day. Though the...
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Top O’ The World : 7 Amazing North Pole Scenes
Santa’s workshop isn’t the only thing found at the North Pole, though jolly old St. Nick does his best to camouflage his HQ from prying eyes. Indeed, our planet’s topmost swatch of real estate has...
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Hot Spots: Earth’s 5 Most Naturally Radioactive Places
While the news too-often tells of dangerous radiation from human sources, it bears reminding that the Earth itself is naturally radioactive… some places much more than others. Five natural radioactive...
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Ice Keen Cones: The World’s 7 Most Amazing Pingos
When’s a mountain not a mountain or a volcano? When it’s a pingo! Pingos are conical ice-cored landforms towering up to 70 m (230 ft) above the frozen arctic. Very Cool Little Hills (image via: Tahoe...
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Rock The Wave: A Sandstone Sea In Arizona
Spanish photographer Raúl Cruz Arnelas captured spectacular images of “The Wave”, a natural sandstone rock formation in the Coyote Buttes of Arizona. “The Wave” is located in the Paria Canyon-Vermilion...
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