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(via SciShow) With acidic puddles, lava lakes, and one of the most important early hominid discoveries, the Danakil Depression is home to all of the extremes.

To descend into the Danakil Depression is to step into another world. The thick warm air, the hazy sky and the rugged empty mountains that gradually give way to the immensity of a white, shimmering ...

Hyperacidic and hypersaline ponds at the geothermal field of Dallol, Danakil Depression, Afar region, Ethiopia. Despite the presence of diverse extremophilic archaea nearby, this polyextreme ...

Current issues are now on the Chicago Journals website. Read the latest issue.One of the oldest journals in geology, The Journal of Geology (JG) has since 1893 promoted the systematic philosophical ...