A Billion Years Are Mysteriously Missing From #Earth’s History. Now, We Know Why.
#TheGreatUnconformity — a gap in Earth’s #geologicalrecord. New research suggests it was created by shifting continents, rather than “#SnowballEarth” or #Cambrian life. Evidence that the gap was largely created by #tectonic processes that occurred from 2.1B to 1.6B years ago, in the #Neoproterozoic era, during the formation of an ancient supercontinent called Columbia
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A Billion Years Are Mysteriously Missing From Earth’s History. Now, We Know Why.

The Great Unconformity — a gap in Earth’s geological record — has puzzled scientists for 150 years. New research suggests it was created by shifting continents, rather than “snowball Earths” or Cambrian life.

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An international consortium of geoscientists has reconstructed atmosphereric levels of CO2 going back 66 million years using proxies in the geological record. Today's concenteration, 420 parts per million, is higher than it's ever been in 14 million years... #co2 #carbonemissions #atmosphere #geologicalrecord #geoscience #climatechange #climate #climatescience #geography https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/12/231207160421.htm
Geoscientists map changes in atmospheric CO2 over past 66 million years

An international consortium of geoscientists has reconstructed atmosphereric levels of CO2 going back 66 million years using proxies in the geoloogical record. Today's concenteration, 420 parts per million, is higher than it's ever been in 14 million years.

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