Limalok is a guyot, an undersea volcanic mountain with a flat top, in the southeastern Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean. Located at a depth of 1,255 metres (4,117 ft) with a 636-square-kilometre (246 sq mi) summit platform, it is joined to Mili Atoll and Knox Atoll through a volcanic ridge. Limalok probably started as a shield volcano built up from basaltic rocks; the Macdonald, Rarotonga, Rurutu and Society hotspots may have been involved in its formation. A period of erosion and flattening began around 56 million years ago. During the Paleocene and Eocene, a carbonate platform (mostly red algae) supported an atoll, or an atoll-like structure with reefs. The platform sank below sea level roughly 46–50 million years ago during the Eocene, perhaps because the equatorial area it moved through was too hot or nutrient- rich to support the growth of a coral reef. Thermal subsidence lowered the drowned seamount to its present depth.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1884:

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by American author Mark Twain was first published in the United Kingdom and Canada, two months earlier than in the US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn

1911:

Calbraith Perry Rodgers completed the first transcontinental flight across the United States. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calbraith_Perry_Rodgers

1979:

The Kuomintang dictatorship of Taiwan arrested a large number of opposition leaders who had organized pro-democracy demonstrations, an incident credited with ending the party's rule in 2000. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaohsiung_Incident

1989:

At the first open pro-democracy demonstration in Mongolia, journalist Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj announced the formation of the Mongolian Democratic Union, which would be instrumental in ending communist rule four months later. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsakhiagiin_Elbegdorj

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gylany: (sociology) A social system based on equality of women and men. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gylany

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

I TOOK my power in my hand And went against the world; ’T was not so much as David had, But I was twice as bold. I aimed my pebble, but myself Was all the one that fell. Was it Goliath was too large, Or only I too small?   --Emily Dickinson https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Emily_Dickinson