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Xenolith
A piece of foreign rock that is found inside an igneous rock. It becomes embedded during the cooling of the molten magma, hardening into igneous rock.

Xenolith
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Ice Age >> A time when the Earth was much colder and glaciers covered a lot of its surface. The last ice age ended less than 20,000 years ago.