1.2 Billion Years of Rock is Missing; The Mystery of the Great Unconformity 

It fits, 100%.

It fits!

Yes!

Absolutely yes .

It’s suitable. There is more to learn. It’s a good thing rocks can talk.😊

Semi frightening, semi awesome.

it sounds like they don't know the difference between 1 billion years and 100 million years and since there is a clear lack of explanation for that, this may never actually get solved.

@@campsitez2355 in the ~100 million year period, not only was very little new rock laid down, rock that was deposited over the previous ~1.1 billion years were ground down. I don't see the issue? It's like cleaning a house. 1 day of deep cleaning getting rid of many days of built-up dust, leaving only very old dust in long-forgotten spaces behind.

@@bluerendar2194 wow that's one creative "absence of evidence is automatically evidence for whatever I want it to be"... tell me, are you a practicing psychopath or are you just naturally like that?

Calling it an unconformity is saying reality does not conform to the theory. Wrong. The theory must conform to reality or it is a false theory.

I’d rather be a rock 🪨

Grand Canyon was caused by water erosion 😂

@@michaeltaylors2456 Yes, the Grand Canyon was made by water erosion.. However we're not talking about the Grand Canyon here, but rather what the erosion of the canyon revealed the story that told us about the billion+ years of missing rock strata. I guess if you are in that need of a pick me up, I hope the rest of your month is great.

I barely knew the guy...🍊

sorry guys it was under my couch pillow

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"Mr. Henning, where were you between 1700 and 520 million years ago and is there someone who can vouch for that?" 😂

@@nkronert I was at home in bed the whole time! My wife can vouch for me.

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I think the origins of the great uncomformity can be traced back to the first upwelling of the chocolate mantle plume which burnt & twisted & contorted & basically evaporated that missing time frame until nick moved the plume to nevada where it melted back into the crust & formed mount chocolate. 😅🤣

lol

Can't have glaciers everywhere there's unconformity. It's not the answer. The unconformity is so vast, and at various elevations. But it that answer means you can sign off on it in your head- that's what all athiests are doing. Not like it's very telling that its huge sedimentary rock directly above it, across the globe. Jake

@@UserRandJ didn't have to be everywhere just more common

I don't think its so much of a mystery anymore rather that the exact conditions aren't agreed upon fully within the community. It is important to note that it wasn't just snowball glaciation occurring you also had tectonic forces which contributed to the widespread erosion with the formation and break up of two supercontinents having likely contributed to the situation including seeding the Cryogenian glaciations in the first place the question is how much is attributed to both.

Well the one thing I've realized is we only get bits of real information because they are so busy trying to make things up. So much brainwashing, such little time.

if the earth is "missing so much rock history" the working assumption is that the method of "estimating rock history" is clearly flawed and layered so much in assumptions that the truth may never actually get revealed.

@@campsitez2355 Not really. It's a "mystery" because mysteries generate clicks. If the Great Cooling (snowball earth) involved a mile of almost stationary ice, not much sedimentary action would happen. Contrarily, moving ice (in the quantities mentioned here) is INSANELY abrasive! It will scour the underlying rock pretty thoroughly, when the glaciers break back up. There are no "clearly flawed" aspects of our understanding of geology.

​@@campsitez2355I mean how do you think they know it's missing to begin with exactly?

Yea', Missouri is very interesting itself', from the ice factories in the hills of Kansas City to the Ozarks where my ex's Grandfather', the last of the Mob had to hide out', and when we went to see him I met Roy Sessions', guitarist for George Jones', crazy world'''''''LoL.

@@manomyth11 Jesse James's hideout in Elephant Rocks!

Not billions of years. The Great Unconformity shows evidence of erosion. On top of this is sandstone with Cambrian fossils of sophisticated creatures. This happened from a global flood. The Great Unconformity is global! The rocks verify RAPID sedimentation happened, and fossils take rapid burial to preserve. Billions of years is false.

Another one at the base of Frenchman mtn. East of Las vegas.

the bigger the lie, the better it works. everyone knows that. Pretty sure that if there were 1 billion years of time on that piece of the earth there is a significant chance the plate tectonics would have generated a volcano there by now and destroyed any of the evidence you wish you had in the first place. "but hey let's not include that as a possibility" because why?

Ah its a thousand, thousand, thousands! Billion times bigger than 1 1000 times bigger than a million

It's hard for everybody

@@danquaylesitsspeltpotatoe8307 The numbers aren't difficult

@@mrloop1530 You said they hard for you! For a lot of people they are not!

Where do you think research starts when dealing with something that happened on the earth hundreds of millions of years?? Are the researchers supposed to wait indefinitely before out any proposals for how to explain what we clearly see in the geologic record. And in this case the Great Unconformity is very real geologic phenomena indeed!!

There's no accepted answer for when and how plate tectonics started. Lots of geologists strongly disagree with each other!

@@Muskoxing That's why science is cool. People might think because scientists always disagree that science isn't trustworthy, but science is built upon the fact that bitching at your lab partner that the sodium hypochlorate caused the reaction and not the arsenic pentoxide is required for it to work.

Plate tectonics is most likely wrong. Earth was smaller.

@@ObsidianRadio Sure, buddy.

@@ObsidianRadio Yep, the place was so cold it shrank

No, it's quite obvious how this extends throught the globe. Not going to be ice rivers/ glaciers that achieved it globally. They are kidding themselves, but people are buying it. Jake

Its a bit tricky to say which were at play where but many of the locations where rocks were preserved were those sites where the glaciers dumped their loads onto what were ten continental shelves and or interior basins. The Great lakes region which is probably where that rock from Michigan came from was notably a major failed rift zone with the presence of vast rift lakes that represent failed ocean basins that would subsequently in the modern ice age be largely re-excavated to form the modern great lakes. Actually thinking about the timeline for the rifting that pretty much occurred during the timeframe erased by the great nonconformity, thus in all likelihood the reason these areas preserved rocks is that they were low lying areas that didn't get subducted. The Geology of California and the western US in general is extremely complicated and not well resolved as recent work shows that existing models are incompatible with observations. Nick Zentner's recent Baja BC controversy A to Z livestream series provide a lot of food for thought on this with the most comprehensive big picture perspective being Robert Hildebrand's work which seems to be painting a far more complex picture with Laurentia having piled up lots of terrane fragments somewhat like bugs on a windshield where the "bugs" are bits of past collisions which stayed with North America after the bulk craton/continent detached and that is before the Jurassic to Paleogene story of North America colliding with a major mature volcanic arc microcontinental complex or the Cenozoic extensional rifting/unzipping of the continent. When working on a term paper back in grad school related to climate science I remember reading a paper describing the geology of the death valley region which included rocks of this age notably in the form of glacial dropstones from the Cryogenian mixed with volcanic products This at the very least suggests that the region was likely costal at the time though unfortunately in light of the bigger geological picture its hard to say where the rocks in question actually originally came from. The main commonality though for other sites I read about when writing that term paper was they either seemed to be costal dropzones and or frigid dry valleys which didn't receive enough precipitation to become ice covered so its really just the same old depositional environments of any other time on Earth' s history. Glaciers like other forms of erosion preferentially carve away the highlands and soft rocks. Its also important to note that the timeline of the great unconformity includes the assembly and break up of two supercontinents so its very unlikely that all the erosion happened at once in fact there is pretty good evidence that in some places it didn't occur at once . Towering mountain ranges rose and fell during this interval which some work has made a fairly strong case were likely responsible for much of perhaps most of the great Unconformity as Columbia gave rise to Rodinia and Rodinia violently broke apart, likely triggering the Cryogenian glaciations through associated flood basalt eruptions and a new interior seaway opening up pelagic(open ocean) habitats for aerobic life for the first time in Earth's history which had previously been confined to continental shelves bays estuaries and freshwater environments, before rejoining on the other side of the world as Pannotia/Greater Gondwana. As for interesting rocks related to the great unconformity timeframe there is a bit of obducted(opposite of subduction i.e. oceanic on top of continental crust) seafloor which got docked to North America when the continent collided with the mature volcanic arc complex known as Avalonia. Obduction happens when a closing ocean basin brings a formerly oceanic oceanic subduction zone towards the passive costal margin of a continent. slab pull brings the continental shelf down with the closing oceanic crust before the buoyancy of the continental crust breaks it off from the slab leaving the continental margin beneath the section of former ocean floor turned volcanic arc saving that section of ocean crust from getting subducted back into the mantle. This provides a valuable window into a Neoproterozoic abyssal plain environment with the Mistaken point Ediacaran biota a series of soft bodied fossils which were entombed and preserved by the volcanic ash from the volcanic arc complex. The sequence preserves part of the ancient Mohorovicic discontinuity as well. The lack of major deposition during the Cryogenian could perhaps be taken as evidence that the then open ocean arc environment was probably beneath the ice but I don't know how robust that is.

Look up Midcontinent Rift System. It was tropical with raging volcanos. There are areas in Michigan where exposed rock is 3.5 billion years old. So yes - protected from calamities all those years.

​@@W1se0ldg33zerThat rifting started well after the Great Unconformity.

Yep, what I thought when you first started the video. I agree, Snowball Earth had something to do with it.

An interesting unconformity exists in the Ouray-Silverton area (Silverton Caldera) thousands of feet of San Juan Breccia are on top of the Telluride Conglomerate. In the Motherlode of California, basalts can be seen covering rivers where huge paleo placer deposits of gold have been mined.

Yeah, it's detailed very well if you research tectonic flood. It's as simple as that. Jake

Yeah, like music they use at magic shows, where slight of hand is used- fooling people into believing glaciers could possibly have achieved all unconformities. People will believe anything now days. No chance did glaciers achieve it globally. There's a very good explanation. But let's all pretend that is not what we see. (Tectonic flood, look it up). Jake

That applied about 60 years ago, but not anymore. Modern geology takes into account such things as catastrophes, local, regional and global.

Your point about non-uniformitarianism is sort of true, but these things aren't entirely unconsidered by geologists. What kind of catastrophe could remove such massive amounts of rock?

​@@MountainFisher people still think the Younger Dryas events didn't happen. You're giving the scientific community way too much credit lol

@@PatMcCarthy420 When did I mention the Younger Dryas? I just said modern geology doesn't think like they did 60 years ago. Still even 60 years ago they left room for major catastrophes, but also were committed to Lyell's Uniformitarianism maybe a bit too much.

I can appreciate how fast and violent geologic time can pass. We have been witnessing mountains falling, the leveling of cities and towns by floods. tornadoes, fires, rock and landslides.👩‍🌾☀️ And earthquakes and wars.

On RU-vid BBC Men of Rock 1 of 3 Deep Time presented by geology professor Ian Stewart.

@@viona-6408 Seconded, anything Ian Stewart does is great

Uranium-lead dating can accurately date zircon crystals in crystalline (igneous/metamorphic) rocks to within a few million years. Dating sediments is harder - you can go by the date of the youngest zircon in the sediments, but it's usually more accurate to date volcanic ash or lava layers in the sediments.

@@Muskoxing I distrust any form of radiometric dating. Too many assumptions... 1. Decay rate is a constant, 2. The starting number of parent and daughter atoms. It's a known fact that you can have a rock formed in a labratory, or better yet, rocks that we know the exact date they were formed (IE: Mt. Saint Helens) still date millionsto billions of years old

@D R Yeah, but the dates he's looked up come from radiometric dating.

Although the first unconformity Hutton found was on Arran it wasn't very clear and he only got it half right. The term is generally used for the very clear unconformity at Siccar Point (on the east coast of Scotland about 20 miles ESE of Edinburgh), where gently dipping Devonian red sandstones overlie almost-vertical Silurian mudstone and greywackes forming the north edge of the Southern Uplands.

If it gets ground down into sand/silt/dust later it can get washed to sea or otherwise basically completely removed, so no, it wouldn't be traceable.

He explains what happens to the missing rocklayer in the video, dude, it's only 5 mins long.

Probably alluvium or colluvium or became aggregated in sediment layers.

@@zGJungle Agentlandy no watch to end, see banana in kitchen, he make banana his own. Banana good.

He tells you that sea bed doesn't last more than 200 M years before it slips down a subduction zone.

I think I beat you by 4 seconds. But, you can have it for the record books. Cheers.

@@scillyautomatic

He also makes up a bunch of shallow minded guesses. Glaciers had nothing to do with it. Glaciers always leave rubble. Debris. This is CLEAN, AND GLOBAL. Jake

I doubt volcanoes stopped erupting and the plates stopped moving. My guess is there was a rise in oxygen and enough CO2 was removed but not added back in at the same time, plus the plates were in the right areas which resulted in geologic features that made the cooling worse.

The supercontinents during this era were Columbia (1.8-1.5 Ga) and Rodinia (1.1-0.75 Ma). Though those might be more accurately thought of as one single long-lived supercontinent. Plate tectonics didn't quite work the same then as it does now.

Plus the amount of oxygen vs CO2

It's a rediculous concept that people are accepting. The unconformity is throughout the globe. Glaciers would not achieve all of it. J

That anomaly has been found around the World. The Snowball Earth theory was proposed in 1998. Myron Cook has a YT video about it. He's an experienced oil & gas geologist that has several YT videos that explains geologic formation creation, their erosion and deposition of the sediments.

Just look up some Yooper tourist trap websites. They should mention where one can pick up samples off the ground and what they have for sale at their stores.

That's true, Lake Powell is heavily silted up, but it has saved Lake Mead to a large degree, but not wholly so. Eventually, decades, Powell will not be able to hold half as much water as now and will have to have something done.

@@MountainFisher I was thinking about the same thing while I was watching that and I'm just a lay person but my dad sparked a lot of things inside my head just watching him was wow, and has kept my mind sharp until I can put everything in my head to real life.

Try Google Earth and Google Street views. Then see if anyone has posted videos of the morning sun rising up from the east to gradually reveal the canyon.

It's easy to understand. Volcano's occurring simultaneously, in huge numbers, caused immense ash clouds and co2. Blocking out the sun. ' Ring of fire ' volcano's, occured all at the same time. There's your answer. They occured simultaneously, because of rapid tectonics. There was a global flood, & it was a tectonic flood. Research it- plenty of evidence now. But it's denied. Jake