{"id":408187,"date":"2017-11-27T07:24:07","date_gmt":"2017-11-27T11:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=f9765f799bd68bb211dca1f26cb7b2a9"},"modified":"2017-11-27T07:24:07","modified_gmt":"2017-11-27T11:24:07","slug":"researchers-study-unique-underwater-stalactites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=408187","title":{"rendered":"Researchers study unique underwater stalactites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In recent years, researchers have identified a small group of stalactites that appear to have calcified underwater instead of in a dry cave. The &#8220;Hells Bells&#8221; in the El Zapote cave near Puerto Morelos on the Yucat\u00e1n Peninsula are just such formations. A German-Mexican research team led by Prof. Dr Wolfgang Stinnesbeck from the Institute of Earth Sciences at Heidelberg University recently investigated how these bell-shaped, metre-long formations developed, assisted by bacteria and algae. The results of their research have been published in the journal Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In recent years, researchers have identified a small group of stalactites that appear to have calcified underwater instead of in a dry cave. The &#8220;Hells Bells&#8221; in the El Zapote cave near Puerto Morelos on the Yucat&aacute;n Peninsula are just such formations. A German-Mexican research team led by Prof. Dr Wolfgang Stinnesbeck from the Institute of Earth Sciences at Heidelberg University recently investigated how these bell-shaped, metre-long formations developed, assisted by bacteria and algae. The results of their research have been published in the journal Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology.<\/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-408187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408187","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=408187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":408188,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408187\/revisions\/408188"}],"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=408187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=408187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=408187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}