The type of rock found below the Great Unconformity

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What type of rock is found below the Great Unconformity at the Grand Canyon, and what would have happened to form a rock like this? What is the full name of the rock unit and how old is it? What is noteworthy about the age of this rock unit? (Geologists give rock units their own unique names, such as the “Acasta gneiss.”)