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Grand Canyon

Mantle Currents May Explain the Grand Canyon’s Missing History

November 4, 2026 by Amara Singh
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At the Grand Canyon, Cambrian sandstone about 540 million years old sits directly on crystalline basement up to two billion years old — a gap of roughly 1.2 billion years called the Great Unconformity, according to Nature.

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