{"id":13966,"date":"2025-04-12T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-12T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/?p=13966"},"modified":"2025-04-03T09:18:03","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T09:18:03","slug":"4-billion-year-old-rock-zircon-dating-early-earth-april-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/4-billion-year-old-rock-zircon-dating-early-earth-april-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"What To Look For In 4-Billion-Year-Old Rock"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"What\u2019s Inside the Oldest Rocks in the World? (feat. @Howtown )\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/c4GRLFuTyQY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Ultra-durable crystals called zircons, found in ancient rocks, preserve chemical clues that date back over 4 billion years\u2014revealing evidence of early oceans and continental crust.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ultra-durable crystals called zircons, found in ancient rocks, preserve chemical clues that date back over 4 billion years\u2014revealing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":13969,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/f\/f9\/Zircon_grain_%28CL-SEM_imaging%29.tiff\/lossy-page1-1024px-Zircon_grain_%28CL-SEM_imaging%29.tiff.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[7164,7172,7169,7165,7162,456,7163,7166,7170,7167,7161,7176,7136,7177,7173,7171,7159,7175,7160,189,7174,7168],"class_list":{"0":"post-13966","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-video","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-earth","8":"tag-4-billion-year-old-rocks","9":"tag-acasta-gneiss","10":"tag-ancient-earth-minerals","11":"tag-ancient-zircons","12":"tag-atomic-decay-dating","13":"tag-be-smart","14":"tag-continental-crust-formation","15":"tag-craton-geology","16":"tag-early-earth-history","17":"tag-early-oceans-evidence","18":"tag-early-planet-formation","19":"tag-earths-early-crust","20":"tag-geologic-time-scale","21":"tag-geology-dark-ages","22":"tag-habitable-earth-origins","23":"tag-hadean-eon-geology","24":"tag-oldest-rocks-on-earth","25":"tag-slave-craton","26":"tag-uranium-lead-dating","27":"tag-youtube","28":"tag-zircon-crystal-dating","29":"tag-zircon-geochronology","30":"post_format-post-format-video","31":"cs-entry","32":"cs-video-wrap"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13967,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13966\/revisions\/13967"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}