Basalt
Basalt is a mafic volcanic rock consisting primarily of plagioclase feldspar and pyroxene minerals. Common accessory minerals can include other pyroxenes, olivine, quartz, and nepheline. Basalt...
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Egypt said Sunday it would seek the temporary return of some of its most precious artifacts from museums abroad, including the Rosetta Stone and a bust of Nefertiti.The country's chief archaeologis...
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Belfast (dpa) - Northern Ireland's only UNESCO World Heritage
Site, the Giant's Causeway, is under threat from rising sea levels,
according to a report by the National Trust...
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Hamburg (dpa) - In a scenario resembling the dramatic conclusion
to a TV crime drama, paleo-forensics experts have produced new
evidence to show that the dinosaurs were bump...
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An ancient Armenian church, perched on a rocky island in a vast lake, has become a modern symbol of the divisions and fitful efforts at reconciliation between Turks and Armenians whose history of b...
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Egypt's antiquities chief says if persuasion doesn't work, he will fight for an ancient bust of Nefertiti that a Berlin museum maintains is too fragile to ever travel.Zahi Hawass rattled world muse...
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Entering the mine at Old New-Gate Prison & Copper Mine is like being hit with a burst of air conditioning.
A staircase leads to a tunnel more than 30 feet below the eart...
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The rest of the crew already had done the throw and go _ tossing their kayaks and paddles over the 80-foot falls and jumping or rappelling down the rock face to the pool below.Chris Korbulic stood ...
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Jay Minthorn remembers watching the Columbia River rise, the islands of Celilo Falls vanish, the fishing platforms wash away _ and a centuries-old way of tribal life vanish forever.The gates of The...
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The Cima Volcanic Field seems like nothing but a vast wasteland.It’s a forbidding-looking landscape with its abandoned mines, craggy hillsides, cacti, dry wind, sun-bleached paths and orange ...
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Basalt
Egypt seeks loans of overseas artifacts
