Scientists detected something extremely strange at the bottom of the Grand Canyon, and the discovery has left researchers questioning what else is hidden beneath the iconic landscape. The anomaly was found deep in the remote, hard-to-reach sections of the canyon, far from typical tourist paths.
The Grand Canyon is known for its dramatic landscape and the long geological record visible in its rock walls. That record contains a notable gap, however, which has puzzled geologists for more than 150 years. Known as the Great Unconformity, the gap represents a period when about one billion years of rock is missing from the canyon’s geological sequence.A team of geologists from the University of…