Despite centuries of efforts to map our planet precisely, our view of the world will always be political and imperfect.

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Drilling from the North Sea. In the center you can clearly see how a layer of brown peat is covered by a layer of gray clay, the moment (8700 years ago) that this part of the North Sea was flooded.