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雪球地球与大不整合

Peer-Reviewed Publication

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Exposure of the Great Unconformity

image: Exposure of the Great Unconformity, Manitou Springs, Colorado, showing the contact between the underlying ~1.1 Ga Pikes Peak Granite and the overlying ~510 Ma Sawatch Sandstone. view more 

Credit: Image credit: Christine S. Siddoway.

对美国科罗拉多南部Front Range 的元古宙基底花岗岩的分析提示,这些花岗岩在7.17亿年前的雪球地球冰川作用之前经历了很大的侵蚀,这组作者说,这意味着大不整合��在元古宙和显生宙之间的地质记录的一个大的空白��并不是该地区在雪球地球时期的冰川侵蚀造成的,而且可能在不同的地点在不同的事件中形成。

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