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  • Geologists dig into Grand Canyon's mysterious gap in time

    08/22/2021 10:16:24 AM PDT · by BenLurkin · 63 replies
    Pys.org ^ | August 19, 2021 | University of Colorado at Boulder
    Think of the red bluffs and cliffs of the Grand Canyon as Earth's history textbook, explained Barra Peak, lead author of the new study and a graduate student in geological sciences at CU Boulder. If you scale down the canyon's rock faces, you can jump back almost 2 billion years into the planet's past. But that textbook is also missing pages: In some areas, more than 1 billion years' worth of rocks have disappeared from the Grand Canyon without a trace. It's a mystery that goes back a long way. John Wesley Powell, the namesake of today's Lake Powell, first...
  • Earth is missing a huge part of its crust. Now we may know why. (Thieves?)

    01/01/2019 7:48:02 AM PST · by rktman · 84 replies
    nationalgeographic.com ^ | 12/31/2018 | Robin George Andrews
    The Grand Canyon is a gigantic geological library, with rocky layers that tell much of the story of Earth’s history. Curiously though, a sizeable layer representing anywhere from 250 million years to 1.2 billion years is missing. Known as the Great Unconformity, this massive temporal gap can be found not just in this famous crevasse, but in places all over the world. In one layer, you have the Cambrian period, which started roughly 540 million years ago and left behind sedimentary rocks packed with the fossils of complex, multicellular life. Directly below, you have fossil-free crystalline basement rock, which formed...