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As meteorites go, few come larger and more devastating than the 10km-wide chunk of space rock that hurtled towards Earth around 2-billion years ago, hitting the ground near what is today the town of Parys in South Africa’s Free State province.
https://www.southafrica.net/gl/en/travel...-and-domes
Vredefort Dome bears witness to the world’s greatest known single energy release event, which had devastating global effects including, according to some scientists, major evolutionary changes.
https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1162/
Grew up in this bad boy. I was fascinated by "little lava rocks" that was everywhere in the ground, sometimes bigger chunks. We have been digging for a long time now and still have not found the bottom of the gold vein that got churned up.
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https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vredef...3-56AA.jpg
https://www.southafrica.net/gl/en/travel...-and-domes
Vredefort Dome bears witness to the world’s greatest known single energy release event, which had devastating global effects including, according to some scientists, major evolutionary changes.
https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1162/
Grew up in this bad boy. I was fascinated by "little lava rocks" that was everywhere in the ground, sometimes bigger chunks. We have been digging for a long time now and still have not found the bottom of the gold vein that got churned up.
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vredef...3-56AA.jpg
compassion, even when hope is lost
