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Beneath the open grasslands and shallow waters lie the remains of extensive earthworks, raised agricultural fields, and interconnected canals that reflect a long history of people adapting to a dynamic environment.

The project tested more than 10,000 wells in a region where many families rely on shallow tube wells with arsenic levels ranging from extremely low to dangerously high.

This area contains a series of long, shallow grooves set within a landscape of deep valleys, scattered impact craters, and surface textures that point to a distant ice age on the Red Planet.

Those markets, however, have been in a downturn, and the expected recovery has been shallower than what investors were expecting at the beginning of the year because of uncertainties over U.S. trade policy.

This ability of faults to regain strength, known as cohesion, may be significant in other tectonic environments as well, including shallower systems and regions responsible for large earthquakes.