{"id":29521,"date":"2018-10-26T10:59:23","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T05:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=29521"},"modified":"2018-10-26T10:59:23","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T05:29:23","slug":"worlds-second-oldest-rock-is-from-odhisa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/worlds-second-oldest-rock-is-from-odhisa\/","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s Second Oldest Rock is from Odhisa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/science\/worlds-second-oldest-rock-is-from-odisha\/article23829527.ece\">World\u2019s Second Oldest Rock is from Odhisa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>News:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0A rock sample collected from Champua in Kendujhar district of Odhisa is world\u2019s oldest rock.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong><u>Important Facts:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The discovery as a research paper has been published in the journal <strong><em>Scientific Reports<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Zircon grains of 4,240 million and 4,030 million years were discovered.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The rock is believed to be <strong>oldest in India<\/strong> and <strong>second oldest in the world<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The oldest age recorded from rocks is 4400 million years, which is the age of a zircon grain.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0This <strong>oldest zircon <\/strong>was discovered from a metamorphosed sedimentary rock at <strong>Jack Hill of Western Australia.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Zircon <\/strong>is a mineral that contains traces of radioactive isotopes. The mineral is used to date its parent rock<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World\u2019s Second Oldest Rock is from Odhisa News: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0A rock sample collected from Champua in Kendujhar district of Odhisa is world\u2019s oldest rock. Important Facts: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The discovery as a research paper has been published in the journal Scientific Reports \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Zircon grains of 4,240 million and 4,030 million years were discovered. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The rock is believed to&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/worlds-second-oldest-rock-is-from-odhisa\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">World\u2019s Second Oldest Rock is from Odhisa<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704774960},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}