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Glacial rocks reveal the geology hidden beneath the East Antarctica Ice Sheet
Oxytropidoceras posted a topic in Geology
Glacial rocks reveal the geology hidden beneath the East Antarctica Ice Sheet Syracuse University, PhysOrg, March 6, 2023 The open access paper is: Fitzgerald, P.G., Goodge, J.W. Exhumation and tectonic history of inaccessible subglacial interior East Antarctica from thermochronology on glacial erratics. Nat Commun 13, 6217 Yours, Paul H.-
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The strange race to track down a missing billion years (The Great Unconformity)
Oxytropidoceras posted a topic in Fossil News
The strange race to track down a missing billion years Zaria Gorvett, BBC News, September 1, 2021 A billion years have vanished from the geological record – and over 152 years after this was first discovered, scientists can't agree on why. Some papers: Peters, S.E. and Gaines, R.R., 2012. Formation of the ‘Great Unconformity’as a trigger for the Cambrian explosion. Nature, 484(7394), pp.363-366. Keller, C.B., Husson, J.M., Mitchell, R.N., Bottke, W.F., Gernon, T.M., Boehnke, P., Bell, E.A., Swanson-Hysell, N.L. and Peters, S.E., 2019. Neoproterozoic glacial origin of the Great Unconformity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(4), pp.1136-1145. Open access Marshak, S., Domrois, S., Abert, C., Larson, T., Pavlis, G., Hamburger, M., Yang, X., Gilbert, H. and Chen, C., 2017. The basement revealed: Tectonic insight from a digital elevation model of the Great Unconformity, USA cratonic platform. Geology, 45(5), pp.391-394. Yours, Paul H.-
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