{"id":717953,"date":"2022-03-01T08:34:34","date_gmt":"2022-03-01T12:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=717953"},"modified":"2022-03-01T08:34:34","modified_gmt":"2022-03-01T12:34:34","slug":"new-technique-unlocks-ancient-history-of-earth-from-grains-of-sand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=717953","title":{"rendered":"New technique unlocks ancient history of Earth from grains of sand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lead researcher Dr. Milo Barham, from the Timescales of Mineral Systems Group within Curtin&#8217;s School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, said the team devised a metric, which determines the &#8220;age distribution fingerprint&#8221; of minerals known as zircon within sand, shedding new light on the evolution of the Earth&#8217;s surface over the last few billion years.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2022-03-technique-ancient-history-earth-grains.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New technique unlocks ancient history of Earth from grains of sand<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lead researcher Dr. Milo Barham, from the Timescales of Mineral Systems Group within Curtin&#8217;s School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, said the team devised a metric, which determines the &#8220;age&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-717953","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\/717953","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=717953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717953\/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=717953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=717953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=717953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}