{"id":726940,"date":"2022-06-15T12:18:48","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T16:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=726940"},"modified":"2022-06-15T12:18:48","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T16:18:48","slug":"steep-mountain-slopes-have-surprisingly-long-lifetimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=726940","title":{"rendered":"Steep mountain slopes have surprisingly long lifetimes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gravity and rock physics say slopes steeper than about 30\u00b0\u2014known as the critical threshold angle, or the angle of repose\u2014shouldn&#8217;t really exist, yet they do. These steep slopes and near-vertical cliffs can be seen in the Himalayas and in Yosemite National Park, for example. For some geologists, the question is not only how &#8220;oversteepened&#8221; slopes exist but also how long they stay that way.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2022-06-steep-mountain-slopes-surprisingly-lifetimes.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Steep mountain slopes have surprisingly long lifetimes<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gravity and rock physics say slopes steeper than about 30\u00b0\u2014known as the critical threshold angle, or the angle of repose\u2014shouldn&#8217;t really exist, yet they do. These steep slopes and near-vertical&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-726940","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\/726940","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=726940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726940\/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=726940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=726940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=726940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}