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Analogue model of extension tectonics

... that analogue modelling in geology uses material such as honey, gelatin, sand or clay to simulate crust and mantle?
... that Lvinaya Past was the site of the largest Holocene volcanic eruption in the Southern Kurils?
... that rocks from the Lesser Himalayan Strata show that the northern part of the Indian plate submerged in the late Cretaceous period?
... that the Ciomadul volcano in Romania last erupted less than 50,000 years ago and is still potentially active?
... that Koh-i-Sultan volcano in Pakistan last erupted approximately 90,000 years ago and still displays fumarolic activity?

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... that a megaflood from ancient Lake Atna 17,000 years ago may have contributed to the devastation caused by the 1964 Alaska earthquake?

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