Rocks undergo changes over millions of years. Yet it is possible to extract information from them about the climate at the time of their formation.
"We were surprised that the changes in the rock enabled us to identify a large number of significant geological events, such as the opening of the North Atlantic in the Jurassic and the onset of the folding and subsequent uplift of the Alps hundreds of kilometers away since the late Cretaceous period," lists Mathias Müller. He considers radiometric uranium-lead dating to be the key to the chronological classification of the so-called overprinting events stored in the rock.
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