{"id":146047,"date":"2022-09-10T11:22:46","date_gmt":"2022-09-10T16:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/slowing-of-continental-plate-movement-controlled-the-timing-of-earths-largest-volcanic-events"},"modified":"2022-09-10T11:22:46","modified_gmt":"2022-09-10T16:22:46","slug":"slowing-of-continental-plate-movement-controlled-the-timing-of-earths-largest-volcanic-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/slowing-of-continental-plate-movement-controlled-the-timing-of-earths-largest-volcanic-events","title":{"rendered":"Slowing of continental plate movement controlled the timing of Earth\u2019s largest volcanic events"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/slowing-of-continental-plate-movement-controlled-the-timing-of-earths-largest-volcanic-events2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have shed new light on the timing and likely cause of major volcanic events that occurred millions of years ago and caused such climatic and biological upheaval that they drove some of the most devastating extinction events in Earth\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p>Surprisingly, the new research, published today in <i>Science Advances<\/i>, suggests a slowing of continental plate movement was the critical event that enabled magma to rise to the Earth\u2019s surface and deliver the devastating knock-on impacts.<\/p>\n<p>Earth\u2019s history has been marked by major volcanic events, called large igneous provinces (LIPs)\u2014the largest of which have caused major increases in atmospheric carbon emissions that warmed Earth\u2019s climate, drove unprecedented changes to ecosystems, and resulted in mass extinctions on land and in the oceans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have shed new light on the timing and likely cause of major volcanic events that occurred millions of years ago and caused such climatic and biological upheaval that they drove some of the most devastating extinction events in Earth\u2019s history. Surprisingly, the new research, published today in Science Advances, suggests a slowing of continental [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,493,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-climatology","category-existential-risks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146047","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=146047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}