“Unconformities in the rock record are like missing chapters in the book of geologic time,” said Jordan Jensen, a USU Presidential Doctoral Research Fellow.

Courtesy Flowers Gallery, London/Hong Kong In the book of unconformities ($30, Pantheon), Hugh Raffles contemplates the curious lives of stones from the Bronx to Iceland, demonstrating that “even the ...

"The Book of Unconformities" is a consummately "unstable and intimate energy-space," and among the most mysterious books I’ve ever read — a dense, dark star.

When the anthropologist author’s two sisters die suddenly within weeks of one another, he reaches for rocks as reassuring solid objects and ways to make sense of events. This unusual-sounding ...

Bookshelf ‘The Book of Unconformities’ Review: Of the Gaps in Deep Time Life is filled with unconformities, revealing holes in time that are also fissures in feeling, knowledge and ...

“The Book of Unconformities” is a consummately “unstable and intimate energy-space,” and among the most mysterious books I’ve ever read — a dense, dark star.

Instead, the team believes that the unconformities seen around the world, though often from the same time, were not made by a common cause. “We’re left with a feature that looks similar across ...

We correlate these unconformities with previously reported unconformities from other deep-sea locations, although their causes (i.e., whether related to sea-level or deep-water changes) remain ...

Population studies of planktonic foraminifers in the Gulf of Mexico Site 94 and E67-128 and classical Gulf Coast sections in Alabama and Mississippi are analyzed with respect to stratigraphy, ...

“These unconformities are forming again and again through tectonic processes,” Macdonald said. “What’s really new is we can now access this much older history.” Zircons from Pikes Peak. Photo Credit: ...