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Central Ideas & Details
At the ancient Maya city of Tikal, in Guatemala, archaeologists identified zeolite and coarse quartz grains in sediment from the Corriental reservoir. These minerals can filter impurities from water, but their likely geological source lies some 30 kilometers from Tikal. The combination was absent from the other reservoirs examined, and the researchers proposed that Tikal's inhabitants had transported the minerals to Corriental to help purify its water.
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