#42 – “Is Earth Missing One Billion Years in Rock History? (Part Two): The Surprise Discovery of the ‘Boring Billion'” – October 21, 2026
Summary in seconds: The Great Unconformity may have begun forming much earlier than the Snowball Earth glaciations, with major erosion occurring between about 2.1 and 1.6 billion years ago. This evidence challenges the traditional picture of the “Boring Billion” as a relatively quiet period in Earth’s history and complicates the idea that erosion directly helped […]