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Upheaval Dome: Utah's 'belly button' that has divided scientists since its discovery
Upheaval Dome is a giant rock formation in southeastern Utah with two potential origin stories, although most scientists think it was created by an ancient meteor strike.
Pamukkale: Turkey's 'cotton castle' of white limestone that inspired an ancient cult
The Pamukkale travertines are limestone slopes and thermal water pools that have attracted visitors since before the days of Ancient Greece, when the spa town of Hierapolis was founded at the top.
The Bungle Bungles: Towering domes in the Australian outback that contain traces of the earliest life-forms on Earth
The Bungle Bungle Range in Western Australia is a collection of rock domes forged from ancient seabeds and flanked to the northeast by a prehistoric meteor impact crater.
Scientists discover 'sunken worlds' hidden deep within Earth's mantle that shouldn't be there
A new way of measuring structures deep inside Earth has highlighted numerous previously unknown blobs within our planet's mantle. These anomalies are surprisingly similar to sunken chunks of Earth's crust but appear in seemingly impossible places.
Scientists find hidden 'hotspot' that helped create the Great Lakes before North America even existed
A hotspot that now lies in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean was once under the Great Lakes, and may explain why they formed where they did.
Tristan da Cunha: The most remote inhabited island on Earth, forged from a supercontinent breakup
Tristan da Cunha is a group of islands in the South Atlantic that formed from the breakup of the supercontinent Gondwana. Today, it's home to a tiny and extremely isolated farming community.
Kawah Ijen: The volcano in Indonesia that holds the world's largest acidic lake at its heart
Kawah Ijen is an active volcano on the island of Java with an extremely acidic crater lake and gas emissions that produce blue flames upon contact with oxygen in Earth's atmosphere.
The oldest rocks on Earth
The world's oldest rocks are spread across the globe and paint a picture of Earth's turbulent early history. Here are some of the most notable and important formations scientists have discovered.
