{"id":757781,"date":"2023-06-12T12:40:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-12T16:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=757781"},"modified":"2023-06-12T12:40:02","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T16:40:02","slug":"geologists-challenge-conventional-view-of-earths-continental-history-stability-with-new-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=757781","title":{"rendered":"Geologists challenge conventional view of Earth&#039;s continental history, stability with new study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The seemingly stable regions of the Earth&#8217;s continental plates\u2014the so-called stable cratons\u2014have suffered repetitive deformation below their crust since their formation in the remote past, according to new research from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. This hypothesis defies decades of conventional plate tectonics theory and tries to answer why most cratons have remained structurally stable while their underbellies have experienced significant change.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2023-06-geologists-conventional-view-earth-continental.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Geologists challenge conventional view of Earth&#8217;s continental history, stability with new study<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The seemingly stable regions of the Earth&#8217;s continental plates\u2014the so-called stable cratons\u2014have suffered repetitive deformation below their crust since their formation in the remote past, according to new research from&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-757781","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\/757781","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=757781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757781\/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=757781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=757781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=757781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}