{"id":165784,"date":"2023-06-14T21:23:52","date_gmt":"2023-06-15T02:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/plate-tectonics-not-required-for-the-emergence-of-life-argues-study"},"modified":"2023-06-14T21:23:52","modified_gmt":"2023-06-15T02:23:52","slug":"plate-tectonics-not-required-for-the-emergence-of-life-argues-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/plate-tectonics-not-required-for-the-emergence-of-life-argues-study","title":{"rendered":"Plate tectonics not required for the emergence of life, argues study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/plate-tectonics-not-required-for-the-emergence-of-life-argues-study.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have taken a journey back in time to unlock the mysteries of Earth\u2019s early history, using tiny mineral crystals called zircons to study plate tectonics billions of years ago. The research sheds light on the conditions that existed in early Earth, revealing a complex interplay between Earth\u2019s crust, core, and the emergence of life.<\/p>\n<p>Plate tectonics allows heat from Earth\u2019s interior to escape to the surface, forming continents and other geological features necessary for life to emerge. Accordingly, \u201cthere has been the assumption that <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/plate+tectonics\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">plate tectonics<\/a> is necessary for life,\u201d says John Tarduno, who teaches in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Rochester. But new research casts doubt on that assumption.<\/p>\n<p>Tarduno, the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Geophysics, is lead author of a paper published in <i>Nature<\/i> examining plate tectonics from a time 3.9 billion years ago, when scientists believe the first traces of life appeared on Earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have taken a journey back in time to unlock the mysteries of Earth\u2019s early history, using tiny mineral crystals called zircons to study plate tectonics billions of years ago. The research sheds light on the conditions that existed in early Earth, revealing a complex interplay between Earth\u2019s crust, core, and the emergence of life. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165784","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=165784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}