A Billion Years is Missing

The Great Unconformity is a gap in the geologic record thought to represent 6km of missing rock. This video is all about the planetary and celestial catastrophes that could have erased all that stone from the face of the Earth, and started life as we know it.

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CITATIONS:

Life in the Ediacaran was very different from the Cambrian that followed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ediacaran_biota

Great unconformity in the Ozark plateau
https://eos.org/articles/erasing-a-billion-years-of-geologic-time-across-the-globe

Kuril Tsunami erosion, more than deposited:
https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.1130/G30172A.1

Popsci of kuril tsunami:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091028112803.htm

Geology tour of Palomarin beach
https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2005/1127/chapter9.pdf

Oceans cool from 170F to 95F 420 million years ago
https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/news/how-hot-were-the-oceans-when-life-first-evolved/

Acaraman crater:
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/42813/acraman-impact-structure-south-australia

Cryopreserved Seeds of Cambrian Explosion:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0079610718300798?via%3Dihub

Oort cloud
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oort_cloud#/media/File:PIA17046_-_Voyager_1_Goes_Interstellar.jpg

Video of chicxulub impact model:
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-38019604

New bodyplan in the cambrian:
https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2018.06.003

What continental margins used to look like
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/09/what-did-the-continents-look-like-millions-of-years-ago/279892/

Oldest mountains in the world, 3 billion years old:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makhonjwa_Mountains

Electric Catastrophes on Mars:
https://www.thunderbolts.info/tpod/2005/arch05/050408marineris.htm

Cave paintings of CMEs:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/does-new-mexico-petroglyph-represent-ancient-eclipse-180964542/

Assyrian Records of CMEs:
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab42e4

Prehistoric CME records in isotopic refreshing:
https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-753272/v1

Superflares:
https://www.livescience.com/sun-like-star-coronal-mass-ejection

Field excursions weakening the magnetosphere:
https://www.pnas.org/content/115/20/5111

Field weakening and the Cambrian boundary:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/292178502_Rapid_changes_of_magnetic_Field_polarity_in_the_late_Ediacaran_Linking_the_Cambrian_evolutionary_radiation_and_increased_UV-B_radiation

Why has our sun no partner?:
https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/deep-space/a26950/all-stars-born-in-pairs/

Stable Novae:
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abg6037

Supernovae and the appearance of life?
https://phys.org/news/2022-01-supernovae-life-earth.html

Hapgood’s text:
https://archive.org/stream/eathsshiftingcru033562mbp/eathsshiftingcru033562mbp_djvu.txt

On the inside of the earth:
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature11571

True polar wanders:
https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.1130/B25892.1