Is the Mystery of Earth's 1.2 Billion Missing Years Solved? | SciShow News

For the last hundred and fifty years or so, geologists have been trying to wrap their heads around the mystery: in some places, the geologic record just seems to jump by over billion years. And last week, a paper was published that may hold the answer to this mystery.

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https://www.pnas.org/content/early/20...
https://www.nature.com/articles/natur...
https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...
http://geoscience.unlv.edu/pub/rowlan...
https://eos.org/articles/erasing-a-bi...