Africa’s rocks hold ancient stories. We need better ways to document and protect them

September 9, 2026 · 10:00 pm 1 sources

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• Africa's rocks hold ancient stories. We need better ways to document and protect them
  Phys.org · September 9, 2026 22:00
  From the Vredefort Dome in South Africa (the world's oldest and largest known meteorite impact structure) to the volcanic lakes of the Great Rift Valley in Kenya, Africa's landscapes hold some of Earth's oldest stories. Morocco's M'Goun UNESCO Global Geopark records more than 200 million years of…