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Ancient Volcanic Mountain Chain in Supercontinent Rodinia discover beneath South China

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Rodinia Missing Link,  CAWOOD  et al. , 2013;  CC BY-SA 4.0 International ,  Link 400-mile-long chain of fossilized volcanoes discovered beneath China (Aubrey Zerkle, LiveScience ; July 29, 2025) https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/volcanos/400-mile-long-chain-of-fossilized-volcanoes-discovered-beneath-china Featured Research Article: A-700-km-Long Fossil Tonian Magmatic Arc Belt Hidden within the Yangtze Block Interior, South China (GU et al ., 2025) https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Zhidong-Gu-3/publication/393165783_A_700-km-Long_Fossil_Tonian_Magmatic_Arc_Belt_Hidden_Within_the_Yangtze_Block%27s_Interior_South_China/links/68637ed339c358351205b38d/A-700-km-Long-Fossil-Tonian-Magmatic-Arc-Belt-Hidden-Within-the-Yangtze-Blocks-Interior-South-China.pdf Also... Archaen geodynamics:  Ephemeral supercontinents or long-lived supercratons? (LIU et al. , 2021) https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/article/49/7/794/595625/Archean-geodynamics-Ephemeral...
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Earth Overshoot Day 2025 - Natural Resources Limit for Humankind reached on July 24, 2025

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Earth Overshoot Day Reaches Record for Earliest Date (Paige BENNETT, EcoWatch ; July 28, 2025) https://www.ecowatch.com/earth-overshoot-day-2025.html Earth Overshoot Day 2025 falls on July 24 (Press Release, Global Footprint Network ; June 5, 2025) https://overshoot.footprintnetwork.org/newsroom/press-release-june-2025-english/ Country Overshoot Days 2025 https://overshoot.footprintnetwork.org/newsroom/country-overshoot-days/
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Industrial Waste into Rock within Decades - The Anthropoclastic Rock Cycle

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( OWEN et al. , 2025; University of Glascow ) Industrial waste is turning to rock in just decades, research reveals  (University News Release, University of Glasgow ; 28/4/2025) https://www.gla.ac.uk/news/headline_1173682_en.html Cumbrian coast research shows industrial waste turns into rock in decades - BBC News (29/4/2025) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c86j2x4d29lo.amp Featured Research Article Evidence for a rapid anthropoclastic rock cycle (OWEN et al. , 2025) https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/article-abstract/53/7/581/653591/Evidence-for-a-rapid-anthropoclastic-rock-cycle N. B.:   Abstract and Supplementary Materials only. Evidence for a Rapid Anthropoclastic Rock Cycle * (OWEN et al. , 2025) https://eprints.gla.ac.uk/353367/1/353367.pdf (*) = Pre-Print! Slag Stone (circa 1900) , Kvarnen ;  CC BY-SA 3.0 , Link
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Presence of Kilometer-Scale "Sinkites" and Injected Sand Mound Complexes in the North Sea

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(RUDJORD and HUUSE, 2025) Scientists discover giant ‘sinkites’ beneath the North Sea  (News Release, The University of Manchester ; 4 July 2025) https://www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/scientists-discover-giant-sinkites-beneath-the-north-sea/ Featured Research Article Km-scale mounds and sinkites formed by buoyancy driven stratigraphic inversion (RUDJORD and HUUSE, 2025) https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-025-02398-8 Also... Large Scale Neogene Sand Intrusions, Northern North Sea, an Interactions between Sand and Low-Density Ooze (RIIS et al. , 2024) https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4871940
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Six mile-high Ash cloud from Mount Lewotobi Laki-laki volcanic eruption - Island of Flores, Indonesia

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      Indonesia's Lewotobi Laki-laki volcano erupts twice in 2 days, unleashing 6 mile-high ash cloud (Sascha PARE, LiveScience ; June 18, 2025) https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/volcanos/indonesias-lewotobi-laki-laki-volcano-erupts-twice-in-2-days-unleashing-6-mile-high-ash-cloud               NASA LANDSAT Image ; Link
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