A billion years of Earth's history are simply missing from the Grand Canyon's walls

In the Grand Canyon's rock layers, 1.7-billion-year-old basement rock sits directly beneath strata barely 500 million years old, with roughly a billion years of sediment absent between them. Geologist John Wesley Powell first noticed the gap in 1869, and its cause is still debated.

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