{"id":299241,"date":"2017-04-10T10:07:47","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T14:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=3904bfe84fc6051f6e0da6d0c07bec94"},"modified":"2017-04-10T10:07:47","modified_gmt":"2017-04-10T14:07:47","slug":"a-rusty-green-early-ocean-lab-recreates-one-mechanism-by-which-todays-ore-deposits-originally-formed-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=299241","title":{"rendered":"A rusty green early ocean? Lab recreates one mechanism by which today&#8217;s ore deposits originally formed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Though they may seem rock solid, the ancient sedimentary rocks called iron formations &#8211; the world&#8217;s chief economic source of iron ore &#8211; were once dissolved in seawater. How did that iron go from a dissolved state to banded iron formations? Dr. Itay Halevy and his group in the Weizmann Institute of Science&#8217;s Earth and Planetary Sciences Department suggest that billions of years ago, the &#8220;rust&#8221; that formed in the seawater and sank to the ocean bed was green &#8211; an iron-based mineral that is rare on Earth today but might once have been relatively common.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though they may seem rock solid, the ancient sedimentary rocks called iron formations &#8211; the world&#8217;s chief economic source of iron ore &#8211; were once dissolved in seawater. How did that iron go from a dissolved state to banded iron formations? Dr. Itay Hal&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-299241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=299241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":299242,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299241\/revisions\/299242"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=299241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=299241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=299241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}