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Pattern
Close ✕The world before witnesses
Rocks that record life before anything could see it — where on Earth is the evidence kept?
- 1 Burgess Shale, Yoho Natio… · 1909
- 2 Ediacara Hills, Flinders … · 1946
- 3 Bottaccione Gorge, Gubbio · 1980
- 4 Chengjiang fossil site, Y… · 1984
- 5 Chicxulub impact crater, … · 1991
- 6 Isua supracrustal belt, s… · 1999
- 7 Francevillian Basin, Gabon · 2010
- 8 Meishan GSSP, Changxing, … · 2014
- 8 Siberian Traps large igne… · 2014
- 9 Nuvvuagittuq greenstone b… · 2017
- 10 Dresser Formation, North … · 2018
- 11 Fortune Head GSSP, Newfou… · 2020
Places in the order the corpus dates them. The line marks that order — it is not a route, and no path between these places is recorded.
Read the story behind this pattern ↗Mission history61 missions · 1959 → 2026 · 2 planned
1145 objects · 280 located (1 withheld pending verification) · 865 unlocated · No relief basemap · marks drawn only from sourced coordinates