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  2. Sailing stones - Wikipedia

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    News articles reported the mystery solved when researchers observed rock movements using GPS and time-lapse photography. The largest rock movement the research team witnessed and documented was on December 20, 2013 and involved more than 60 rocks, with some rocks moving up to 224 metres (245 yards) between December 2013 and January 2014 in ...

  3. Racetrack Playa - Wikipedia

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    The ice panels moved several rocks at speeds of up to 80 mm/s. [2] While these discoveries give information on the physics, several aspects of the tracks remain a mystery. Kletetschka et al. proposed that when an ice sheet arises, rocks with better thermal conductivity than water or ice could become frozen to the rock's base.

  4. 20 Surreal Places In America You Need To Visit Before You Die

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    Monument Valley, straddling the Arizona-Utah border, is famous for its towering red sandstone buttes and dramatic desert landscape, ... and the mysterious moving rocks of Racetrack Playa. It holds ...

  5. Los Lunas Decalogue Stone - Wikipedia

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    Los Lunas Decalogue Stone in situ in 1997. The Los Lunas Decalogue Stone is a hoax associated with a large boulder on the side of Hidden Mountain, near Los Lunas, New Mexico, about 35 miles (56 km) south of Albuquerque, that bears a nine-line inscription carved into a flat panel. [1]

  6. Gleaming monolith pops up in Nevada desert, the latest in a ...

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    Jutting out of the rocks in a remote mountain range near Las Vegas, the glimmering rectangular prism's reflective surface imitates the vast desert landscape surrounding the mountain peak where it ...

  7. List of gravity hills - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of gravity hills and magnetic hills around the world.. A gravity hill is a place where a slight downhill slope appears to be an uphill slope due to the layout of the surrounding land, creating the optical illusion that water flows uphill or that a car left out of gear will roll uphill.

  8. Niland Geyser - Wikipedia

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    Niland Geyser (nicknamed the "Slow One" [2] and formally designated W9) [3] is a moving mud pot or mud spring outside Niland, California in the Salton Trough in an area of geological instability due to the San Andreas Fault, [4] formed due to carbon dioxide being released underground.

  9. Mysteries at the National Parks - Wikipedia

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    Located in the Mojave Desert, the park is famed for being a hotbed of UFO activity believed to be a magnet for alleged sightings and extraterrestrial encounters, as well as, being home of the Integratron, a domed-building designed by engineer George Van Tassel on the instructions of the alien species, the Anunnaki from his encounter with them ...