Natural lakes are common well to the north, where the Appalachian Range was subject to geologically recent glacial activity.
This huge volcano has produced two of the world's most violent eruptions in geologically recent times.
It is one of the youngest known of these structures, probably forming only in the geologically recent past of Mars.
But Madagascar provides the smoking gun for geologically recent impacts.
Fresh-looking gullies suggest slope movements in geologically recent times, perhaps aided by water.
Some authors have suggested these structures indicate geologically recent flow of small quantities of water across the surface.
Images from spacecraft in orbit find signs that liquid water has burst onto the surface in geologically recent times.
The town area is built on geologically recent alluvial drift, the result of the silting up of a bay.
India contains a central shield, and the geologically recent Himalaya mobile belt forms its northern margin.
The island consists mostly of limestone, and its elevation above the sea is geologically recent.