A billion years is missing from the geologic record; one UC Santa Barbara scientist believes he knows where it may have gone The geologic record is exactly that: a record. The strata of rock tell ...

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Scientists are floating a new way to explain a geological feature called the Great Unconformity, where the record of a billion years is just missing from between the layers of rock. Or, to be more ...

This week's Friday Field Foto is from an area just west of Death Valley called Darwin Canyon. As you can see, there is a sharp, angular contact between two sedimentary formations -- an angular ...

Las Vegas locals began a project in the 1990s to protect a geological marvel at the edge of town. They made educational signs and were joined by politicians including late Sen. Harry Reid and ...

A huge section of Earth’s fossil history is missing. Scientists know where it should be, but it’s not there. And now they think they know where it went. All over the planet, there are huge gaps in the ...

Unconformity: An interruption between layers of rock, in which the upper layer is much younger (even by more than a billion years) than the lower layer. An interruption between layers of rock, in ...

New research provides further evidence that rocks representing up to a billion years of geological time were carved away by ancient glaciers during the planet's 'Snowball Earth' period. New research ...