{"id":218449,"date":"2025-07-22T08:20:21","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T13:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/did-a-cosmic-collision-dam-the-grand-canyon-a-56000-year-old-mystery"},"modified":"2025-07-22T08:20:21","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T13:20:21","slug":"did-a-cosmic-collision-dam-the-grand-canyon-a-56000-year-old-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/did-a-cosmic-collision-dam-the-grand-canyon-a-56000-year-old-mystery","title":{"rendered":"Did a Cosmic Collision Dam the Grand Canyon? A 56,000-Year-Old Mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/did-a-cosmic-collision-dam-the-grand-canyon-a-56000-year-old-mystery.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A remarkable coincidence occurred 56,000 years ago, when the impact that created Meteor Crater triggered both a landslide-dammed lake and a paleolake formation in the Grand Canyon. Earth\u2019s ancient past often reads like a mystery novel, and a recent study published in Geology reveals one of its mo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A remarkable coincidence occurred 56,000 years ago, when the impact that created Meteor Crater triggered both a landslide-dammed lake and a paleolake formation in the Grand Canyon. Earth\u2019s ancient past often reads like a mystery novel, and a recent study published in Geology reveals one of its mo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218449","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=218449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}