{"id":157650,"date":"2026-09-19T12:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T12:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=157650"},"modified":"2026-09-19T12:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T12:00:11","slug":"china-led-study-reveals-greater-gondwana-was-80-of-earths-crust-500m-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=157650","title":{"rendered":"China-led study reveals \u2018Greater Gondwana\u2019 was 80% of Earth\u2019s crust 500m years ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostFragments of a long-disappeared ancient giant land mass have been discovered buried deep beneath parts of the modern continents that once formed it, according to an international team led by Chinese scientists.<br \/>\nPublished this month in the peer-reviewed journal Science Advances, the discovery reveals that Gondwana \u2013 a land mass that dominated Earth some 500 million years ago \u2013 was much larger than previously believed.<br \/>\nCrucially, the findings show how geological activity related to Gondwana&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3368102\/china-led-study-reveals-greater-gondwana-was-80-earths-crust-500m-years-ago?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostFragments of a long-disappeared ancient giant land mass have been discovered buried deep beneath parts of the modern continents that once formed it, according&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157650"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=157650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=157650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=157650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=157650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}