{"id":198554,"date":"2024-10-30T03:28:56","date_gmt":"2024-10-30T08:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/geologists-crack-134-million-year-old-mystery-of-amethyst-geode-formation"},"modified":"2024-10-30T03:28:56","modified_gmt":"2024-10-30T08:28:56","slug":"geologists-crack-134-million-year-old-mystery-of-amethyst-geode-formation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/geologists-crack-134-million-year-old-mystery-of-amethyst-geode-formation","title":{"rendered":"Geologists Crack 134-Million-Year-Old Mystery of Amethyst Geode Formation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/geologists-crack-134-million-year-old-mystery-of-amethyst-geode-formation3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>New research from the University of G\u00f6ttingen reveals that amethyst geodes in Uruguay formed at low temperatures from groundwater-like fluids, proposing a new model for their formation based on extensive geological surveys and innovative analytical methods.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Amethyst, the violet variety of quartz, has been used as a gemstone for centuries and is a key economic resource in northern Uruguay. Geodes are hollow rock formations often with quartz crystals, such as amethyst, inside.<\/p>\n<p>In Uruguay, amethyst geodes have been found in cooled lava flows dating back to the original breakup of the supercontinent Gondwana approximately 134 million years ago. However, their formation has remained a mystery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research from the University of G\u00f6ttingen reveals that amethyst geodes in Uruguay formed at low temperatures from groundwater-like fluids, proposing a new model for their formation based on extensive geological surveys and innovative analytical methods. Amethyst, the violet variety of quartz, has been used as a gemstone for centuries and is a key economic [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,1522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198554","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=198554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}