{"id":4569,"date":"2013-02-11T13:54:10","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T21:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.wavewithoutashore.cwgservices.org\/?p=4569"},"modified":"2013-02-11T13:54:10","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T21:54:10","slug":"new-land-in-the-pacific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/new-land-in-the-pacific\/","title":{"rendered":"New land in the Pacific?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5983377\/a-massive-new-volcano-may-be-forming-in-the-pacific\">Possible new island as large as Florida&#8230;or something weirder<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Deccan Traps, the Siberian Traps, the Columbia Flood Basalts, and the Lakhi eruption in Iceland are all from when the Earth ripped open along a large seam on land. Now, volcanic eruptions produce basalts, which do not as a rule produce continents&#8212;continents, which &#8216;float&#8217; on the mantle, are granite, a lighter rock than basalt. Hawaii, however, is basaltic&#8230;some have even suggested that its hot spot WAS the Siberian Traps hotspot, as the overlying plates migrated over time.<\/p>\n<p>At a time yet to come, a hundred million years from now, we may see this break out&#8212;from our orbiting station, we hope. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Possible new island as large as Florida&#8230;or something weirder The Deccan Traps, the Siberian Traps, the Columbia Flood Basalts, and the Lakhi eruption in Iceland are all from when the Earth ripped open along a large seam on land. Now, volcanic eruptions produce basalts, which do not as a rule produce continents&#8212;continents, which &#8216;float&#8217; on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":751,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/751"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}