{"id":2025,"date":"2024-10-26T07:00:59","date_gmt":"2024-10-26T11:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/?p=2025"},"modified":"2024-10-21T15:37:47","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T19:37:47","slug":"zircon-offers-insights-into-planetary-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/zircon-offers-insights-into-planetary-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Zircon Offers Insights Into Planetary History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zircons may be best known as a birthstone of December, but they also record time much like tree rings, can tell the origin stories of planets, perhaps discover precious minerals beneath the Earth\u2019s surface, even infer when continents rose from the oceans.\u00a0 Indeed, without zircons we would know very little about the Earth.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Keeping time with zircons<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/knowablemagazine.org\/content\/article\/physical-world\/2021\/keeping-time-zircons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>https:\/\/knowablemagazine.org\/content\/article\/physical-world\/2021\/keeping-time-zircons<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Related Reading<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/widgets.js\" data-type=\"book\" data-affiliate-id=\"102171\" data-sku=\"9781770855878\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zircons may be best known as a birthstone of December, but they also record time much like tree rings, can tell the origin stories of planets, perhaps discover precious minerals beneath the Earth\u2019s surface, even infer when continents rose from the oceans.\u00a0 Indeed, without zircons we would know very little about the Earth. Keeping time&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/zircon-offers-insights-into-planetary-history\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Zircon Offers Insights Into Planetary History&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,25,53,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-environment","category-global","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2027,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2025\/revisions\/2027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}