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The Spartans Last Stand: Geology of the Hot Gates
Have you ever watched the movie 300 or heard of the Spartans making a stand against the Persian Empire? It's an amazing story right...but it has some amazing geology behind it too.
Geology has influenced historical events in momentous ways, and here on PlanetGeo we are going to start highlighting these ways. This incredible story of the Hot Gates is just the first part of that series.
In this episode we are going to cover
Let’s start out with the words: Hot Gates. First, the Gates part of that. What formed the gates? Well it’s a fault like the Grand Teton National Park, and the tectonics of…
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