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slowly consumes the plate.
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lts lighter elements rise
as magma toward the surface
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fracturing paths
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through the continental plate
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emerging in the violence
of volcanic eruptions.
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No one who has witnessed
the violance of a volcano
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can continue
in the innocent belief
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in a placid, unchanging earth
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nor in the continuity
of our history
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nor in the inevitable progress
of our civilizations
:18:47
1 5 centuries before Christ
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Europe's first great
civilization flourished
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in the eastern Mediterranean.
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lt was the Minoan civilization,
and this-
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the palace of King Minos
at Knossos on Crete-