Africa's rocks hold ancient stories. We need better ways to document and protect them

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Sep 9, 2026, 6:00 pm110 ptsTrending
From the Vredefort Dome in South Africa (the world's oldest and largest known meteorite impact structure) to the volcanic lakes of the Great Rift Valley in Kenya, Africa's landscapes hold some of Earth's oldest stories. Morocco's M'Goun UNESCO Global Geopark records more than 200 million years of geological…

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