Some Old Stock is missing

parfive no longer being taken for granite Member since August 2005 Posts: 9,608	Some Old Stock is missing Sept 2, 2021 13:36:30 GMT -5 RickB and rockjunquie like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by parfive on Sept 2, 2021 13:36:30 GMT -5 *The strange race to track down a missing billion years* www.bbc.com/future/article/20210901-the-strange-race-to-track-down-a-missing-billion-years
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hypodactylus spending too much on rocks Member since July 2021 Posts: 479	Some Old Stock is missing Sept 2, 2021 14:21:26 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by hypodactylus on Sept 2, 2021 14:21:26 GMT -5 Interesting read! I don't recall ever hearing about our missing billion years of geologic history. Thanks!

rockjunquie Global Moderator Member since March 2012 Posts: 34,987	Some Old Stock is missing Sept 2, 2021 15:03:30 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by rockjunquie on Sept 2, 2021 15:03:30 GMT -5 Started reading and have to come back to it. It starts out an interesting read and quite the mystery.

roy gets rocks for Christmas no rock gets left behind Member since October 2010 Posts: 6,394	Some Old Stock is missing Sept 2, 2021 16:05:53 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by roy on Sept 2, 2021 16:05:53 GMT -5 Sept 2, 2021 13:36:30 GMT -5 parfive said: *The strange race to track down a missing billion years* www.bbc.com/future/article/20210901-the-strange-race-to-track-down-a-missing-billion-years Wow good read
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Some Old Stock is missing Sept 3, 2021 10:44:23 GMT -5 miket likes this

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Post by mohs on Sept 3, 2021 10:44:23 GMT -5

as a side note

the CamelBack as a
great unconformity event

the bulk of the mountains back is granitic
the head is of the much later red bed event
right where the neck connects
is the missing evidence of a billion years

at least that how I (magazine)

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