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How Oceanographers and Geologists Found a LOST Tropical Island Near Brazil | Into the Blue Podcast
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We're 1200 kilometers from land, a thousand meters down, and underneath is this frozen-in-time tropical island just sitting there.
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A patient geology story that turns deep-sea clues into a lost tropical island.
This episode follows a marine geologist and colleagues as they piece together red clays, lava flows, tropical weathering, kaolinite, and possible fossil roots to argue that a tropical island once rose where the Rio Grande rise now sits, about a thousand meters below sea level.
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Follow the clues that turned seabed rock into a lost tropical island.
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