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What is a lava tube?
Tagged: 2008  Sept  lava  volcanoes  geology 
Published: 9/17/2008


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129
What is metadata?
Tagged: 2008  Sept  metadata 
Published: 9/10/2008


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128
What is sterling silver?
Tagged: 2008  Sept  minerals 
Published: 9/3/2008


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A CoreFact is a weekly audio podcast from the USGS that asks and answers a natural science question. When you subscribe to CoreFacts, episodes will be automatically downloaded to your computer as soon as they're available.

Huh? What's a Podcast?

A podcast is an audio (e.g. mp3) or video file (e.g. mpeg) that can be played on a mobile media player (i.e. Apple iPod)1 or personal computer.2

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