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Preservation

Keeping the artefact alive past its format.

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Pamukkale

Water doesn’t just erode—it builds. Here, it writes rock in real time.

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Geodes

A geode is a hollow, roughly spherical rock in sedimentary or volcanic rock holding mineral matter, which may include crystals, deposited from groundwater or hydrothermal fluids.
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Japanese Alps

The Japanese Alps are three mountain ranges that bisect Honshu, Japan's main island, and hold the country's only active glaciers.
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Halo

A halo is an optical phenomenon in which sunlight or moonlight, bent and reflected by ice crystals in the air, makes rings, arcs and spots in the sky.
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Metamorphosis

Metamorphosis is the biological process in which an animal's body changes abruptly in structure as part of its development, as when a larva becomes an adult.