{"id":3923281,"date":"2025-12-23T09:01:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T14:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/scientists-crack-ancient-salt-crystals-to-unlock-secrets-of-1-4-billion-year-old-air\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T09:01:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T14:01:16","slug":"scientists-crack-ancient-salt-crystals-to-unlock-secrets-of-1-4-billion-year-old-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/scientists-crack-ancient-salt-crystals-to-unlock-secrets-of-1-4-billion-year-old-air\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists crack ancient salt crystals to unlock secrets of 1.4 billion-year-old air"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>More than a billion years ago, in a shallow basin across what is now northern Ontario, a subtropical lake much like modern-day Death Valley evaporated under the sun&#8217;s gentle heat, leaving behind crystals of halite\u2014rock salt.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2025-12-scientists-ancient-salt-crystals-secrets.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than a billion years ago, in a shallow basin across what is now northern Ontario, a subtropical lake much like modern-day Death Valley evaporated under the sun&#8217;s gentle heat, leaving behind crystals of halite\u2014rock salt. <\/p>\n<p>Go to Source<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3923281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3923281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3923281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3923281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3923281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3923281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3923281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}