Earth is Missing a Billion Years of History, We Finally Know Why
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A significant absence in the rock record of Earth, dubbed the “Great Unconformity,” has long been one of the greatest mysteries of geology. In many locations on earth, strata spanning almost a billion years seem to be missing. Now, new research is helping scientists piece together what may have wiped out that vast period of time and the cause could completely change the way they think about the evolution of Earth.