Earth is missing a huge part of its crust. Now we may know why. (Thieves?)

nationalgeographic.com ^ | 12/31/2018 | Robin George Andrews

[milagro]

Good one :)!

[fieldmarshaldj]

*ping*

[refreshed]

I just followed your link and found out the moraine I live on is named after our small town. Who knew? I mean other than geologists. Neat.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Kids writing for kids.

It starts in the third sentence: "the thief was Snowball Earth, a hypnotized time..."

An entire geological era was "hypnotized"? Give me a break. Immaturity abounds everywhere.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Let’s look on the bright side. Man has destroyed all the glaciers. Therefore we have stopped more of the crust from going missing.

[Gritty]

There's a whole lotta suppositions goin' on here. It's not easy to explain away that "missing" 250-1,250 million years.

What if their entire theory of geological uniformity is wrong? Easy. Invent "snowball earth"!

[logi_cal869]

The science described is rather refreshing and I can look beyond the author’s creativity to make a rather boring subject (rocks) palatable for layman readers.

Without regard for the mocking of the delivery, the article outlines some very sound science and its application in study of a genuine geological mystery.

Now only if the same methods were used in archaeology & climate sciences...

[fruser1]

Maybe the method they’re using for dating is incorrect.

Hard to believe sediment would only go to the ocean.

[refreshed]

I missed that one. We are indeed getting dumber as a people.

[PAR35]

“Altogether, this evidence suggests that a gargantuan erosional event happened at the surface.”

Details on that erosional event can be found in Genesis 7-8

[rktman]

My sediments exactly.

[Still Thinking]

Trump’s ‘fault’!

[bert]

tech, tech, tech.....

Everybody knows that Gaia was making pre cambrian sandwiches one day and cut off the crusts

[Fido969]

Could have been the Earth Mother. I knew a kid whose mom would always remove the crusts..

[bgill]

Bring on globull warming.

[upchuck]

God is wondrous!

[refreshed]

Agreed!

[dhs12345]

Ginormous? Splediforous!

[shanover]

Imagine if the Moon tipped over!

[CurlyDave]

...Hard to believe sediment would only go to the ocean....

Well, don't keep us in suspense, where do you think it should go?