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TIL about the Manhattan Schist: a 450 million year old piece of bedrock, remnants of the Appalachian Mountains, that exists close to and above the surface of the ground. Something not seen anywhere else in the world, and one of the main reasons it’s possible for Manhattan’s dense skyscrapers

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