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Only gentle terrain fits beneath Chile's 21.9-million-year-old ash sheet
A UCL-led team simulated hundreds of ancient landscapes to see which ones could have been buried by the Lauca Caldera's ignimbrite in northern Chile. Only low-relief terrain could. That bounds local uplift near an inch a century.
Reality
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- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+22
- Incentives62
- Confidence55