{"id":690200,"date":"2021-05-14T12:16:39","date_gmt":"2021-05-14T16:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=690200"},"modified":"2021-05-14T12:16:39","modified_gmt":"2021-05-14T16:16:39","slug":"earths-oldest-minerals-date-onset-of-plate-tectonics-to-3-6-billion-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=690200","title":{"rendered":"Earth&#039;s oldest minerals date onset of plate tectonics to 3.6 billion years ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists led by Michael Ackerson, a research geologist at the Smithsonian&#8217;s National Museum of Natural History, provide new evidence that modern plate tectonics, a defining feature of Earth and its unique ability to support life, emerged roughly 3.6 billion years ago.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2021-05-earth-oldest-minerals-date-onset.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Earth&#8217;s oldest minerals date onset of plate tectonics to 3.6 billion years ago<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists led by Michael Ackerson, a research geologist at the Smithsonian&#8217;s National Museum of Natural History, provide new evidence that modern plate tectonics, a defining feature of Earth and its&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-690200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690200","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"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=690200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690200\/revisions"}],"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=690200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=690200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=690200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}