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Earth’s “Missing” Billion Years: Study Links the Great Unconformity to Early Tectonics Columbia Climate School
New findings shed light on a widespread gap in the geologic record, where more than a billion years of Earth’s history appear to have been erased.
11 March 2026 at 18:23

Earth’s “Missing” Billion Years: Study Links the Great Unconformity to Early Tectonics

State of the Planet

By: Columbia Climate School

11 March 2026 at 18:23

New findings shed light on a widespread gap in the geologic record, where more than a billion years of Earth’s history appear to have been erased.

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