{"id":223118,"date":"2025-10-09T00:02:53","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T05:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/enormous-structures-discovered-under-the-north-sea-defy-our-geologic-understanding"},"modified":"2025-10-09T00:02:53","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T05:02:53","slug":"enormous-structures-discovered-under-the-north-sea-defy-our-geologic-understanding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/enormous-structures-discovered-under-the-north-sea-defy-our-geologic-understanding","title":{"rendered":"Enormous structures discovered under the North Sea \u2018defy our geologic understanding\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/enormous-structures-discovered-under-the-north-sea-defy-our-geologic-understanding.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Deep beneath the North Sea, researchers have mapped giant buried mounds and \u201csinkites\u201d that turn a basic rule of geology on its head.<\/p>\n<p>A new peer reviewed study shows that heavy, younger sands sank downward while older, lighter layers rose, forming hidden hills under the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.earth.com\/news\/unseen-impacts-of-fishing-trawling-fuels-climate-change\/\" cmp-ltrk=\"Article - Text\" cmp-ltrk-idx=\"0\" mrfobservableid=\"3363cb00-f0d7-4626-a4e8-20995ca7983f\">seafloor<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deep beneath the North Sea, researchers have mapped giant buried mounds and \u201csinkites\u201d that turn a basic rule of geology on its head. A new peer reviewed study shows that heavy, younger sands sank downward while older, lighter layers rose, forming hidden hills under the seafloor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223118","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}