Earth’s Lost Timeline: Rusty Rocks Reveal Billion-Year-Old Secrets
In a new paper, Jordan Jensen and Alexis Ault introduce a new forensic tool designed to enhance our understanding of how ...
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Geologists Use Rusty Rocks to Trace a Billion-Year Gap in Earth’s Timeline
Geologists have long struggled to understand massive time gaps in Earth’s rock record, where millions—sometimes billions—of ...
'The Great Unconformity Solved?' : Tiny crystals reveal Earth’s biggest geologic mystery
Scientists use martite crystals to date Earth's missing rock record, revealing parts of the Great Unconformity formed 1.4 billion years ago—rewriting geology.
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How Enormous Glaciers on the Frozen ‘Snowball Earth’ Might Have Bulldozed the Path to Complex Life on Our Planet
Known as the Snowball Earth hypothesis, it suggests that runaway cold temperatures launched a series of deep freezes that enveloped the world in glaciers. Now, scientists say those prehistoric ...