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Curious places in Gabon
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Nuclear PhysicsHaut-Ogooué Province
Earth's 1.7-Billion-Year-Old ReactorThe only place where a natural nuclear reactor ran on its own. About 1.7 billion years ago, groundwater seeped into uranium deposits and triggered a fission chain reaction that stayed active for hundreds of thousands of years before burning itself out.
deep-timeHaut-Ogooué Province
Life's 2.1-Billion-Year-Old ExperimentFossils here show complex, multicellular life existed 2.1 billion years ago. Then apparently vanished, a billion years before complex life re-emerged, creating evolution's greatest mystery.
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