Snowball Earth was what formed the Great Unconformity.

雪球地球形成了合。

In 1882, Dutton named this particular break “The Great Unconformity.”

1882 年，达顿将这一特殊突破命名为 “合”。

Here, as in the Grand Canyon, the Great Unconformity is plain to see.

这里，就峡谷中一样， 合面一目了然。

Hopefully, future research will tell us which came first: The Snowball or the Unconformity.

希望来的研究会告诉我们哪个 先出现：雪球合。

Such places are valuable because in most parts of the world there is a gap, known as an unconformity, between the Ediacaran and the Cambrian.

这些地方都很有价值，世界的部分地区，埃迪卡拉和寒武纪之间都有空白，这种空白被称为合面。

Unconformities are places where rocks have been eroded before new ones are deposited, and the widespread Ediacaran-Cambrian unconformity has been a big obstacle to understanding the Cambrian explosion.

合面地方的石块新的沉积之前已经被侵蚀，埃迪卡拉纪-寒武纪之间广泛的合面是了解寒武纪爆发的一个重障碍。