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Yellowstone National Park's geological history is one of the most intensely studied in North America. A new geologic unit ...

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The new discovery by geoscientists from the University of Aberdeen provides the strongest evidence yet that some of Scotland’s most iconic islands were born not from a single large volcano, but from a ...