STUBBORN RESISTANCE TO IDEAS. “Scientists had considered glaciers as a possible cause of the Great Unconformity before, but the idea had been largely abandoned. A 1973 paper on the idea by University of North Carolina geologist William White failed to garner a single citation by other researchers. Other theories include the impossible (giant tides that wiped the land clean, but would have required the moon to exist hundreds of millions of years earlier than it actually did) and the more reasonable (the uplift and subsequent weathering of a massive supercontinent).”
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022