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Curious places in Czech Republic
3 articles, each fact-checked and tied to a spot you can stand on.
deep-timeSouth Bohemia
Green Glass Blasted 500 KilometersGreen glass born from an asteroid impact 15 million years ago. The collision that created Germany's Ries crater blasted molten material 500 kilometers into Czechia. Each piece of moldavite is part of that impact.
deep-timeCentral Bohemian Region
The First Golden Spike in Geologic TimeThe exact rock layer where scientists hammered a golden spike to mark the boundary 419 million years ago when fish started conquering land.
GeochemistryKarlovy Vary Region
The Soos Subsurface CookerA coal seam in Romania that has been smoldering naturally for decades, slowly cooking the surrounding rock. The heat creates rare minerals that form only at high temperatures, turning an underground fire into an accidental geology experiment.
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