{"id":110704,"date":"2020-08-01T06:48:35","date_gmt":"2020-08-01T13:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/texas-cave-sediment-upends-meteorite-explanation-for-global-cooling"},"modified":"2020-08-01T06:48:35","modified_gmt":"2020-08-01T13:48:35","slug":"texas-cave-sediment-upends-meteorite-explanation-for-global-cooling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/texas-cave-sediment-upends-meteorite-explanation-for-global-cooling","title":{"rendered":"Texas cave sediment upends meteorite explanation for global cooling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/texas-cave-sediment-upends-meteorite-explanation-for-global-cooling2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Texas researchers from the University of Houston, Baylor University and Texas A&amp;M University have discovered evidence for why the earth cooled dramatically 13,000 years ago, dropping temperatures by about 3 degrees Centigrade.<\/p>\n<p>The evidence is buried in a Central Texas cave, where horizons of sediment have preserved unique geochemical signatures from ancient volcanic eruptions\u2014signatures previously mistaken for extraterrestrial impacts, researchers say.<\/p>\n<p>The resolution to this case of mistaken identity recently was reported in the journal Science Advances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas researchers from the University of Houston, Baylor University and Texas A&amp;M University have discovered evidence for why the earth cooled dramatically 13,000 years ago, dropping temperatures by about 3 degrees Centigrade. The evidence is buried in a Central Texas cave, where horizons of sediment have preserved unique geochemical signatures from ancient volcanic eruptions\u2014signatures previously [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,493],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-climatology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}