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46: Rising From the Ashes

In Episode 46 of Bedrock, host Dylan Wilmeth explores the ancient volcanic landscape of Isua, Greenland, dating back 3.8 billion years. The episode delves into the formation of different types of volc...

46: Rising From the Ashes
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spk_0 Hello and welcome to Bedrock, a podcast on Earth's earliest history.
spk_0 I'm your host Dylan Wilmeth.
spk_0 Episode 46 Rising from the Ashes
spk_0 For the past three episodes, we've been exploring the Isula region of Southwest Greenland,
spk_0 a lonely remote tundra near the Arctic Circle.
spk_0 These rocks are the most well-preserved of Season 2, the crown jewel of this area.
spk_0 How old you ask?
spk_0 These rocks are between 3.8 to 3.7 billion years old.
spk_0 On the Great Earth calendar, consider this March 3rd through 11th, over a week.
spk_0 We started with the oldest rocks in the region, which are also the oldest surviving
spk_0 pieces of Earth's mantle, the hidden world below our feet.
spk_0 In this episode, we move forward in time and return back to Earth's ancient surface,
spk_0 the realm of oceans, volcanoes, and life.
spk_0 What did Greenland look like back then?
spk_0 Modern day Isula is a cold tundra, peppered with lakes, sitting next to a massive ice sheet.
spk_0 But Isula 3.8 billion years ago was a very different story.
spk_0 Traveling back in time, we would see a vast blue ocean, peppered with islands.
spk_0 This ancient seascape looks far more like the modern Earth than Season 1.
spk_0 But there are some unnerving differences.
spk_0 The noon day sun high in the sky is noticeably dimmer, only as bright as the early dawn today.
spk_0 The moon looms twice as large in the sky with angry red craters cooling into the man in
spk_0 the moon.
spk_0 And let's not forget that this is a sky that we cannot breathe.
spk_0 The air has virtually no oxygen.
spk_0 Earth is growing more normal, but it's still a very alien world.
spk_0 As we gaze over this calm prehistoric sea, we hear an explosion on the horizon.
spk_0 We see a pillar of gray ash and a dull red glow from lava.
spk_0 It seems these islands are volcanic, building upward and outward with each new eruption.
spk_0 Today we'll explore these volcanoes and I'll introduce a new type of lava rock to the show.
spk_0 And finally, we'll see if any place on Earth today resembles Greenland 3.8 billion years ago.
spk_0 Part 1. The Blast Furnace
spk_0 Close your eyes if it's safe and imagine a volcano, a classic volcano from a movie or a cartoon.
spk_0 Okay, good. Keep that in your mind's eye. You're probably imagining a dark, conical mountain,
spk_0 like an upside-down ice cream cone. It might be sitting on a tropical island,
spk_0 it might be sitting in a mountain range or glowering over the black swamps of Mordor.
spk_0 Your imaginary volcano probably has a hole at the top, with glowing red lava oozing from the edges.
spk_0 It might also be belching ash high into the sky. That sure sounds like a volcano to me.
spk_0 And it is. But this is just one type of volcano, one flavor, amongst a wide buffet.
spk_0 Some volcanoes truly look like tall cones with holes, think of Mount Fuji in Japan or Mount St. Helens
spk_0 in the USA. Other volcanoes are wider, much wider and less steep. They spread out over many miles
spk_0 of ground. They're still tall, but these volcanoes look more like a broad dome than a pointy cone.
spk_0 Think of Manolowa in Oayi or Olympus Mons on Mars. Yet another type of volcano is just a huge
spk_0 crater sunk into the ground. No mountain, just a hole from a huge eruption. Think of Yellowstone
spk_0 National Park or the Isle of Santorini in Greece. These are just a few examples.
spk_0 So what volcanoes were present in ancient Isua 3.8 billion years ago?
spk_0 The answer is many different types. We've seen some of these volcanoes in previous episodes,
spk_0 while others are brand new to the show. Today, I'll briefly review our old friends,
spk_0 then introduce some new faces. Sadly, if you visit Isua today, there are no giant cones or domes
spk_0 sticking out of the ancient landscape. No craters, you can peek over.
spk_0 The only traces of the ancient volcanoes are the cooled lava flows, and ash beds they've left
spk_0 behind. But compared with earlier locations, these stones are still a treasure trove. Miles
spk_0 of rock to investigate and explore. In fact, most of Isua is volcanic rock. You'll see green rocks,
spk_0 black rocks, gray rocks, and even pinkish rocks. Each color was formed by different lava's,
spk_0 which made different volcanoes. Before we roam across the Greenland Tundra,
spk_0 let's review how these different lava's form and what they tell us about the ancient landscape.
spk_0 In this first part, I'm going to review two rocks we've seen before, basalt and tonalite.
spk_0 And review their importance to the Greenland story. Think of them like links in a chain to
spk_0 reach today's new volcanic friend. If you feel like you're on solid ground with these old rocks
spk_0 and want to skip straight to the new kid, you can head to 13 minutes and 49 seconds. Ready?
spk_0 Lava is made by melting other types of rock. Any type of rock you can imagine can be melted down
spk_0 with enough heat. But there's a catch. Rocks usually don't melt all at once. I'll say that again,
spk_0 it's critical to the rest of this episode. Rocks don't melt all at once. They're made from
spk_0 many types of crystal and each crystal has a unique melting point. For example,
spk_0 let's imagine a piece of green mantle rock from last episode, our new friend Pyridotite.
spk_0 Pyridotite is mostly green, but there are a few black crystals scattered around.
spk_0 Now, let's throw that poor Pyridotite into a blast furnace and slowly crank up the temperature.
spk_0 I'm going to use Celsius here, but no matter which scale you use, it's going to get really hot.
spk_0 At 100 degrees C, nothing, just a hot rock. At 500 degrees C, still nothing, just an even hotter rock.
spk_0 But around 900 degrees C or so, we finally see a change. All the black crystals begin to melt and
spk_0 bleed away from their former home. The green crystals are perfectly fine, still solid. They can
spk_0 take the heat. Eventually, we have two separate piles, one of solid, all of green crystals,
spk_0 and the other of molten liquid lava. Now, let's school everything back down.
spk_0 The liquid lava turns into a solid black rock, which is not surprising. We melted black crystals
spk_0 to make the lava. It makes sense that it cools back down into black crystals, once again.
spk_0 Congratulations! We've made a brand new lava rock. Its name is Basalt.
spk_0 Basalt is a very old friend of the show. It was one of the very first rocks I introduced
spk_0 in episode two, but we haven't really talked about it since episode 35. If you're new,
spk_0 here are the Basalt basics. Basalt is dark black with scattered flecks of gray.
spk_0 If you're watching a movie that features dark volcanic rock, it's usually Basalt.
spk_0 If you're a villain looking for the perfect foreboding layer, Basalt is an essential building material.
spk_0 Fortunately, you can get it cheap. Basalt is the most common volcanic rock on Earth.
spk_0 You can find it almost anywhere, even the man in the moon. But when I say Basalt,
spk_0 I want you to imagine the dark, cold sea floor. Nearly all the Earth's sea floor is paved with
spk_0 Basalt, like giant slabs of asphalt. Let's bring these ideas back to ancient Greenland.
spk_0 Just like today, black basalt is the most common volcanic rock in Isua, 3.8 billion years ago.
spk_0 In fact, it's the most common surface rock in Isua period. If I were to list the Isua Rocks
spk_0 layer by layer, it would sound something like this.
spk_0 Pyrritidite, basalt basalt basalt, bandit iron formation, basalt basalt basalt,
spk_0 sandstone, basalt basalt basalt, etc. We've talked about basalt a lot on the show already,
spk_0 and I want to focus on new rocks, the new players on the scene.
spk_0 Here's the one sentence summary about all this basalt, and then we're moving forward.
spk_0 Basalt tells us that volcanoes were erupting on the ancient sea floor, melting and refining
spk_0 bright green mantle into dark black stone. If you want more info, check out Episode 31,
spk_0 which is dedicated to basalt. Now, making today's new rock requires a few extra steps.
spk_0 First, we need to throw basalt back into the blast furnace.
spk_0 That just like last time, let's crank up the temperature slowly.
spk_0 I've mentioned many times that basalt is mostly black, but don't forget,
spk_0 there are little flecks of grey crystal inside. As we crank up the heat,
spk_0 those grey crystals are the first to whip out and melt away into a new bottle of lava.
spk_0 When we cool the furnace down, we've made another old friend, Tonalite.
spk_0 Tonalite is the star of season two. Every location we've seen has had lots of Tonalite.
spk_0 If you held a piece in your hand, you would see a dull grey stone with flecks of white and even pink.
spk_0 Tonalites tell us there was likely dry land around, but the details are vague,
spk_0 and there are still many mysteries to solve. Tonalites cool deep underground,
spk_0 so they don't tell us much about the surface world. Were these small islands or larger land masses?
spk_0 Did they form from normal plate tiktonics or from strange processes we see on other planets?
spk_0 Furthermore, Tonalite was super common in the ancient world, but it's very rare on the modern
spk_0 earth. What gives? We discussed these conundrums back in episode 39, and we'll discuss them again
spk_0 at the season's end. Back in Greenland, Tonalites are extremely common around the
spk_0 issuania surrounding our little bubble of basalts. They tell us there were islands in the area,
spk_0 but for now, not much more info than that. We have oceans, we have islands.
spk_0 Is there any more detail we can get?
spk_0 For that answer, let's throw our old friend Tonalite back into the blast furnace and
spk_0 finally meet today's new rock.
spk_0 Part 2. Pretty in pink.
spk_0 If you've jumped ahead from last section, here's the quick rundown. We started by partially
spk_0 melting a piece of green peridotite, the king of the mantle underworld. If you black crystal
spk_0 separated and cooled into our old friend, basalt, the dark king of the sea floor.
spk_0 We then partially melted this black slab of basalt, a few gray crystal separated,
spk_0 and cooled into yet another familiar face, Tonalite, the dull king of the islands.
spk_0 Now to make today's new rock, we're throwing Tonalite back into the blast furnace to see what
spk_0 happens. Just like the previous experiments, we're going to raise the temperature slowly and see
spk_0 what minerals melt first. Tonalite is mostly dull gray, but there are a few flex of white and
spk_0 pink scattered around. These are the wimpiest crystals of the bunch, the first to melt,
spk_0 and bleed away into lava. When we cool the furnace back down, this lava transforms into a new
spk_0 pale pink stone. Again, this makes sense, white and pink crystals melted, and then they
spk_0 refrows back into white and pink. Finally, after all that lead up, it's my pleasure to introduce
spk_0 this new rock to the show. Meet Rialite. That's R-H-Y-O-L-I-T-E Rialite.
spk_0 Rialite can be white, pale gray, or pink in color. The crystals inside are too small to see
spk_0 with the human eye. So instead of having a glittering or speckled appearance,
spk_0 Rialites often just look like dull lumps of hardened play-doh, clay, or chalk.
spk_0 One well-known variety of Rialite is called pumice. Pumice is famous because it floats on water,
spk_0 thanks to its lightweight and a Swiss cheese texture of air bubbles.
spk_0 One of my favorite tricks to play on students is to pretend a piece of pumice is extremely
spk_0 heavy, then gently toss the rock over to them. It never gets old to see their faces change from
spk_0 temporary panic to confusion to wonder, at holding such a light rock.
spk_0 You can also find pumice as a plat fertilizer or an abrasive. For example, my dad loves lava-brand
spk_0 soap, which has ground pumice inside. That stuff will get just about anything off your
spk_0 hands, including your top skin if you're not careful. If anyone represents lava soap out there,
spk_0 that may be to talk. When you interact with Rialite, it seems cute, even quirky. The very
spk_0 grandmother of the rock world. It's pink. It floats. It helps clean your skin.
spk_0 Nothing like that dark gloomy basalt hanging around the villain's castle there.
spk_0 But let's not forget that pretty pink Rialite was also forged from molten lava and spewed out
spk_0 of a volcano, hundreds of degrees hot. And if you asked me which eruption I would rather be around,
spk_0 basalt or Rialite, I would pick a basalt volcano every single time. To learn why, let's revisit our
spk_0 blast furnace from earlier this episode. Just like dark basalt and pink Rialite are very
spk_0 different rocks. They come from very different lovis. The lovis color is not important here.
spk_0 It's their textures. Basalt behaves like warm honey, flowing thickly but relatively fast.
spk_0 If you've seen videos of Hawaii or Iceland eruptions, you can see these runny lava flows in action.
spk_0 You'll also see these dark lovis happily bubbling away, popping and spraying
spk_0 fountains of lava into the air. You might be scratching your heads right now.
spk_0 Dylan, you might say. You said this is the volcano you'd want to be around. Fast lava flows,
spk_0 and spraying lava fountains don't sound very appealing. And you're right. Given a choice,
spk_0 I wouldn't be around any active volcano. And basalt volcanoes can cause a lot of extensive
spk_0 property damage. In the news, such devastation has happened recently in Hawaii and Iceland.
spk_0 But think back to those news reports. Do you remember hearing about many, or any deaths associated
spk_0 with those eruptions in Hawaii or Iceland?
spk_0 Basalt eruptions are dramatic but rarely result in the loss of human life. Typical flow speeds
spk_0 are only one mile an hour, rarely breaking five miles an hour, pretty easy for most folks to escape.
spk_0 For example, Iceland went 50 years without any loss of life from an eruption until 2023.
spk_0 And many recent Hawaiian eruptions had no recorded deaths that I could find.
spk_0 In fact, these active volcanoes are often tourist traps. You'll see images of people walking
spk_0 fairly close to lava flows. Obviously, you should still use common sense.
spk_0 Before we continue to rye-light eruptions, I have a quick personal story about volcanoes.
spk_0 In 2010, I was a freshman in college and I had signed up for my first international geology
spk_0 field trip, a trip to Iceland. The lecture started in January and we were slated to finish in the summer.
spk_0 But in between, our plans suddenly changed. And Icelandic volcano erupted in April 2010,
spk_0 filling the northern skies with ash. Over 100,000 flights were cancelled that week. Half the
spk_0 world's flights had the time. The largest shutdown since World War II. My school's flight
spk_0 was fortunately months later after the blow-up. But as we watched the volcano calm down on the news,
spk_0 we knew we had to visit it. The volcano is called Aeafiatliocle. One more time that's Aeafiatliocle.
spk_0 My apologies for butchering any Icelandic. If you think that's difficult to pronounce,
spk_0 so did many reporters, who shortened it to E15. We ascended the volcano about three months
spk_0 after it erupted, long after the ash and lava cleared. But as we ascended, we could still feel the
spk_0 heat from the ground pump through our boots. If you left a backpack too long on the ground,
spk_0 the hard plastic buckles would melt and stretch out like a Salvador Dalí painting.
spk_0 Finally, we made it to the very top, looking down into the crater. Sadly, there was no boiling pool
spk_0 of lava, just a steaming pile of grey and red rocks. But there was a small crack close by,
spk_0 about the size of a hand. Looking through that crack, I saw an orange glow brighter than anything
spk_0 I've seen before or since. It looked like a melted traffic cone. It was lava, and the heat
spk_0 belched so strongly from the crack you could only stand 30 feet away. The acrid stench of sulfur,
spk_0 the brimstone, was enough to cover your mouth, for me yellowish green crystals thick as moss
spk_0 around the cracks opening. It was both beautiful and terrifying to be hold.
spk_0 Got a picture of that up on our website, bedrockpodcast.com.
spk_0 On our way down, our professors stopped us for a lunch break. They found a strong heat vent on the
spk_0 rocky slope. No lava, no brimstone, just heat. Our profs dug through their packs and brought out
spk_0 sliced bread and cheese. Using two flat stones as a griddle, we made grilled cheese sandwiches using
spk_0 volcanic heat. I know, right? That day is one of the best in my life. A top five moment if not
spk_0 higher. Big thanks to Dr. Barry Cameron and Tom Huier at UW-Mawaki for making that trip possible.
spk_0 And if you are an undergraduate or no an undergraduate out there,
spk_0 chances like this are still available to you if you know where to look.
spk_0 Anyways, let's bring my story back into our narrative about basalt,
spk_0 ryanite and volcanic eruptions. Most eruptions on Iceland barf out dark basalt.
spk_0 Basalt lava is runny, like honey, but relatively safe. It's more of a tourist trap than a death
spk_0 trap. Ryanite lava. That's a different story. It's more like peanut butter, stodgerier,
spk_0 stickier, much less flowy. On one hand, that doesn't sound too bad.
spk_0 Slowly flowing lava is easy to avoid. But it's not the speed of the lava you should be worried about.
spk_0 The danger is hiding within.
spk_0 The slow sticky nature of ryanite lava means that gas bubbles are trapped inside.
spk_0 It's hard to escape. Remember the merrily bubbling basalts of Hawaii popping and fizzing along?
spk_0 Well, gas can't really do that in ryanite lava. The gas just stays inside, building more
spk_0 and more and more pressure like a hellish piece of bubble gum.
spk_0 Instead of many small bursts, the gas suddenly blows up in a much larger, much more violent
spk_0 explosion. Think of those old videos of folks with diet, coke, and mentos with bottles exploding
spk_0 all over the place. That's a ryanite eruption. The sheer eruptive force of ryanite volcanoes
spk_0 automatically makes them deadlier. But wait, there's more. When all those gasy bubbles explode
spk_0 in ryanite lava, they instantly cool and shatter into billions of tiny, even microscopic shards.
spk_0 Each individual shard might be invisible, but together they form a dense cloud of volcanic ash.
spk_0 That's right. Volcanic ash is the remains of shattered, frozen lava bubbles. If you look at this
spk_0 ash under the microscope, you can see these frozen bubbles for yourself. They look like broken
spk_0 pieces of those bubbly chocolate bars. I've got some pictures up on bedrockpodcast.com if you want to see.
spk_0 Now, as whimsical as these tiny, frozen lava bubbles are, volcanic ash is the deadliest feature
spk_0 of ryanite volcanic eruptions. Lava doesn't travel fast, but ash certainly does.
spk_0 Ash clouds can scream down a volcano at 100 kilometers an hour, or 60 miles an hour, the speed of a
spk_0 car. And this fresh ash is still very hot, up to 1000 degrees C, 2000 Fahrenheit.
spk_0 And let's not forget that it's extremely bad to breathe ash in no matter what temperature it is.
spk_0 In short, volcanoes that barf out ryanite and its cousins are death traps. They're bad news.
spk_0 Think of Mount Vesuvius, bearing ancient Roman Pompeii in ash. Think of Mount St. Helens in 1980,
spk_0 the worst eruption in US history. Think of Mount Tambora in Indonesia, which caused the year without
spk_0 a summer in 1816. Now, before I continue, I can hear volcanologists typing in the comments,
spk_0 telling me that these volcanoes aren't technically ryanite. And they're right.
spk_0 There are many types of explosive lava with many other names. But for today,
spk_0 ryanite is a useful shorthand for lava that make deadly, explosive, ashy volcanoes. I promise,
spk_0 we'll split hairs in later episodes. But you know what is literally ryanite?
spk_0 Some ancient volcanic rocks in Greenland, 3.8 billion years old.
spk_0 This is the first time we've seen ryanite or any rock like it on the show.
spk_0 Now that we've met our new fiery friend on the modern earth, what stories can it tell us about
spk_0 the ancient world?
spk_0 Part 3
spk_0 A Tale of Two Volcanoes
spk_0 All right, it's high time to clear our heads and take a walk around the Isuatundra near the Arctic
spk_0 Circle. Last episode, we saw the oldest stones in the region, glittering green rocks called
spk_0 parititites. Parititites told us tales of the ancient mantle, the deep underworld. But it's time
spk_0 to move on. Let's pack up camp and hike towards our new ryanite friends.
spk_0 As we walk northward, the rocks probably get younger and younger. And we begin to see a familiar
spk_0 pattern from earlier this episode. Just like our imaginary blast furnace, the green paritites are
spk_0 followed by layers of black basalt. And finally, pale ryanites. That sequence of rocks we melted
spk_0 from green to black to pale is a progression we'll see over and over again on the show. If you melt
spk_0 the green mantle, you'll make black sea floor. If you melt black sea floor, you'll make pale islands.
spk_0 It's a process of constant refinement over time. Which brings us to the ryanites, the most
spk_0 refined rock in this greenland volcanic suite. After walking over a thousand yards of black basalt,
spk_0 the ryanite layer stands out like a sore thumb, a wide highway of pale gray stone. Look to the left,
spk_0 look to the right. The ryanite stretches to the horizon in both directions,
spk_0 from one end of the region to the other, over many miles. Clearly, something major happened here.
spk_0 Let's investigate the clues.
spk_0 The first feature you'd notice is that the pale ryanite is stacked in layers, like pages of a book.
spk_0 These layers are thicker in the west, about the width of a human palm. And if you followed
spk_0 these layers east, they would thin out. Thin are going to finger. What are these layers telling us?
spk_0 Let's review what we know about ryanite. It's extremely sticky and slow flowing, like cold
spk_0 peanut butter. It doesn't flow across the landscape for miles. It stays put, piles up, and blows
spk_0 sky high. And yet we're seeing a neat ryanite layer stretching to the horizon. What we're seeing
spk_0 in Greenland are not ancient lava flows. They're ancient ash beds. Now hardened into solid
spk_0 rock after billions of years. Remember, ash travels much faster and much farther than lava,
spk_0 especially when it has the benefit of wind blowing it around. For example, when Natsaint Helens blew
spk_0 up in 1980, the wind blew the ash over a thousand miles. The ash close to the volcano was thick,
spk_0 in developing cars and buildings. And farther away, the ash was only a faint dusting, like gray snow
spk_0 that never melted. This idea brings us to the second clue from the Greenland Ryanites. The beds of
spk_0 bigger layers tell us we're getting closer to ground zero, the eruption center. And indeed,
spk_0 in 2021, when Dr. Alan Nuttman and his team looked in the western most rocks, they found massive
spk_0 unlaired ryanites. Up to 30 feet thick, riddled with empty holes like Swiss cheese.
spk_0 These unlaired ryanites were thick, chunky lava flows, and the holes within were former gas
spk_0 bubbles that never got the chance to blow up, a former time bomb frozen in stone.
spk_0 One last note on these rocks and then will wrap up. In 2015, Dr. Nuttman and crew examined the
spk_0 Isua ash layers and found chemical evidence that they had been sitting around on land, exposed
spk_0 to the wind and rain before burial. That night not sound like much, but on this show,
spk_0 seeing an actual piece of ancient dry land is pretty rare and very noteworthy.
spk_0 Until now, every surface rock we've talked about formed beneath the ocean waves,
spk_0 from underwater eruptions to chemical vents on the seafloor.
spk_0 On this show, far more rocks will be tied to the oceans than dry land.
spk_0 Even today, 70% of the world is covered with the sea, and it was even more extensive in the earth's
spk_0 early days. But every once in a while, you find an ancient piece of the surface, something humans could
spk_0 have walked on, like astronauts on an alien world. To my knowledge, this ash bed might be the oldest
spk_0 piece of, quote unquote, dry land on earth, but I could be way off base. In other case, it's a cool
spk_0 fact to end this episode on. Speaking of dry land, let's summarize what we've learned by traveling
spk_0 back in time and walking along the shores of one of these ancient volcanic islands.
spk_0 Summary
spk_0 The time is 3.8 billion years ago, March 3rd on the Earth calendar.
spk_0 We're standing on an island beach, looking out over the wide sea. As usual, the air is
spk_0 unbreatable, and we need space suits just to survive. The newnday sky is dim, dimmer than usual,
spk_0 with roiling, overcast clouds. A gentle shower of flakes falls from the sky to the beach,
spk_0 and on our space helmets, covering our small island with what looks like grey snow.
spk_0 It's a beautiful sight, almost out of a Christmas card. But this is not snow. It's volcanic ash
spk_0 perhaps still warm to the touch. In the distance, we see the eruption from the intro belching
spk_0 even more ash into the air. We're far enough away to be safe, but it's still an unnerving sight.
spk_0 This ash will one day turn into pale rye light on a green land tundra covered by real snow.
spk_0 This rye light, like others ancient and modern, warns us which volcanoes are death traps,
spk_0 time bombs filled with gas just waiting to erupt. The rye light is a herald of death and destruction,
spk_0 but also of growth and change. Each eruption builds new islands in this ancient sea,
spk_0 islands which will merge and grow, becoming the cores of continents, massive expanses of dry land.
spk_0 The world we know and love is slowly emerging from the waves, rising from the ashes.
spk_0 Next episode, we will jump forward in time, March 7th on the calendar, and return to the sea.
spk_0 We've learned about new volcanic rocks today, now it's time to meet some new sedimentary rocks,
spk_0 including my favorite type of rock on earth.
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