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 ...
The Daily Galaxy on MSN2 天
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 ...
Phys.org28 天
Time will tell: Geoscientists develop tool to chronicle unexplained gaps in the rock record
Jensen and Ault report their findings in the journal Geology. "Unconformities in the rock record are like missing chapters in the book of geologic time," says Jensen, a USU Presidential Doctoral ...
Las Vegas Review-Journal1 个月
This Las Vegas geological wonder hasn’t been forgotten after 30 years
Rainbow Gardens and the Great Unconformity — a slab of exposed rock that reveals a geologic oddity: about 1.2 billion years of Earth’s missing history. By Frenchman Mountain, a layer of 550 ...
EurekAlert!29 天
Time will tell: USU geoscientists develop tool to chronicle unexplained gaps in the rock record
“Unconformities in the rock record are like missing chapters in the book of geologic time,” says Jensen, a USU Presidential Doctoral Research Fellow. “These gaps are the physical ...