{"id":113528,"date":"2020-09-28T12:22:21","date_gmt":"2020-09-28T19:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/sediment-discovered-in-texas-cave-upends-meteorite-explanation-for-global-cooling"},"modified":"2020-09-28T12:22:21","modified_gmt":"2020-09-28T19:22:21","slug":"sediment-discovered-in-texas-cave-upends-meteorite-explanation-for-global-cooling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/sediment-discovered-in-texas-cave-upends-meteorite-explanation-for-global-cooling","title":{"rendered":"Sediment Discovered in Texas Cave Upends Meteorite Explanation for Global Cooling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/sediment-discovered-in-texas-cave-upends-meteorite-explanation-for-global-cooling.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Researchers say cooling 13,000 years ago is coincident with major volcanic eruption.<\/strong><\/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 \u2014 signatures previously mistaken for extraterrestrial impacts, researchers say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers say cooling 13,000 years ago is coincident with major volcanic eruption. 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 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,493],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-climatology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113528","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}