The Great Unconformity And Earth's Missing Billion Years May Have A New Explanation - IFLScience
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In 1869, John Wesley Powell was studying layers of rock in the Grand Canyon when he noticed an unconformity in the layers. Around a billion years were missing, and the problem turned out to be global.
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