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When geologist John Wesley Powell explored the Grand Canyon in 1869, he noticed a glaring omission in the rocks. A layer of rock just 520 million years old sat directly on top of ancient rock dating ...

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In the whole history of Earth's climate, few events are as extreme as those that geologists call "Snowball Earth." "These are times when geologic evidence indicates Earth froze over, essentially from ...