The strange race to track down a missing billion years
Zaria Gorvett, BBC News, September 1, 2021
[www.bbc.com]

A billion years have vanished from the geological record –
and over 152 years after this was first discovered,
scientists can't agree on why.

Some papers:

Peters, S.E. and Gaines, R.R., 2012. Formation of the ‘Great
Unconformity’as a trigger for the Cambrian explosion. Nature, 
484(7394), pp.363-366.
[strata.geology.wisc.edu]

Keller, C.B., Husson, J.M., Mitchell, R.N., Bottke, W.F., Gernon,
T.M., Boehnke, P., Bell, E.A., Swanson-Hysell, N.L. and Peters,
S.E., 2019. Neoproterozoic glacial origin of the Great Unconformity. 
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(4),
pp.1136-1145. Open access
[www.pnas.org]

Marshak, S., Domrois, S., Abert, C., Larson, T., Pavlis, G.,
Hamburger, M., Yang, X., Gilbert, H. and Chen, C., 2017.
The basement revealed: Tectonic insight from a digital
elevation model of the Great Unconformity, USA cratonic
platform. Geology, 45(5), pp.391-394.
[www.researchgate.net]

Yours,

Paul H.

"The past is never dead. It's not even past."
William Faulkner, Act 1, Scene III, Requiem for a Nun (1951)



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