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 ...

Iron oxide minerals are found in rocks around the globe. Some are magnetic, and some of them rust—especially when exposed to ...

A team of geologists is digging into what may be Earth's most famous case of geologic amnesia -- the Great Unconformity. A team of geologists led by the University of Colorado Boulder is digging into ...

HANOVER, N.H. – January 25, 2022 – 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...