{"id":37075,"date":"2018-11-17T15:10:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-17T09:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=37075"},"modified":"2018-11-17T15:10:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-17T09:40:00","slug":"ice-age-crater-discovered-beneath-greenland-glacier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/ice-age-crater-discovered-beneath-greenland-glacier\/","title":{"rendered":"Ice age crater discovered beneath Greenland glacier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/science\/ice-age-crater-discovered-beneath-greenland-glacier\/article25509556.ece\">Ice age crater discovered beneath Greenland glacier<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>An international team lead by researchers University of Copenhagen in Denmark have discovered a 31-km wide meteorite impact crater buried beneath the ice-sheet in the northern Greenland.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Important Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li>This is the first time that a crater of any size has been found under one of Earth&#8217;s continental ice sheets.<\/li>\n<li>The researchers worked for last three years to verify their discovery, initially made in the 2015.<\/li>\n<li>The research is described in a new study just published in the internationally recognized journal Science Advances.<\/li>\n<li><strong>About the Crater:<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>The crater measures more than 31 km in diameter, corresponding to an area bigger than Paris, and placing it among the 25 largest impact craters on Earth.<\/li>\n<li>The impact crater is large enough to swallow the District of Columbia and is the first impact crater found beneath one of our planet\u2019s ice sheets.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Formation: <\/strong>The finding suggests that a giant iron asteroid smashed into during the last ice age, an era known as the Pleistocene Epoch that started 2.6 million years ago.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ice age crater discovered beneath Greenland glacier News: An international team lead by researchers University of Copenhagen in Denmark have discovered a 31-km wide meteorite impact crater buried beneath the ice-sheet in the northern Greenland. Important Facts: This is the first time that a crater of any size has been found under one of Earth&#8217;s&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/ice-age-crater-discovered-beneath-greenland-glacier\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ice age crater discovered beneath Greenland glacier<\/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":[836,80,837,262],"class_list":["post-37075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","tag-crater","tag-geography","tag-greenland-glacier","tag-gs-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700773449,"cached_date":1704611021},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37075","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=37075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}