{"id":24905,"date":"2019-10-02T20:31:07","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T10:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=24905"},"modified":"2019-10-02T20:31:14","modified_gmt":"2019-10-02T10:31:14","slug":"kiwis-find-ancient-tree-with-near-reversal-of-magnetic-poles-recorded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=24905","title":{"rendered":"Kiwis Find Ancient Tree With Near Reversal of Magnetic Poles Recorded"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"737\" height=\"414\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/kauri-tree.jpg\" alt=\"Kauri Tree\" class=\"wp-image-24906\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/kauri-tree.jpg 737w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/kauri-tree-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 737px) 100vw, 737px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>An ancient tree that contains a record of an almost reversal of Earth&#8217;s magnetic field has been discovered in New Zealand. The tree\u2014an Agathis australis, better known as its Maori name kauri\u2014was found in Ngawha, on New Zealand&#8217;s North Island, during excavation work for the expansion of a geothermal power plant, stuff.nz reports. (Watch the video too, it is fascinating!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/ancient-tree-discovered-earths-magnetic-field-1447570\">https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/ancient-tree-discovered-earths-magnetic-field-1447570<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An ancient tree that contains a record of an almost reversal of Earth&#8217;s magnetic field has been discovered in New Zealand. The tree\u2014an Agathis australis, better known as its Maori name kauri\u2014was found in Ngawha, on New Zealand&#8217;s North Island, during excavation work for the expansion of a geothermal power plant, stuff.nz reports. (Watch the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=24905\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Kiwis Find Ancient Tree With Near Reversal of Magnetic Poles Recorded&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24907,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24905\/revisions\/24907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}