{"id":902002,"date":"2026-04-28T03:25:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T08:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/28\/why-geologists-love-pond-scum\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T03:25:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T08:25:13","slug":"why-geologists-love-pond-scum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/28\/why-geologists-love-pond-scum\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Geologists Love Pond Scum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature If you\u2019ve ever wondered how geologists know so much about ancient beaches and shallow oceans, they owe it all to the sand particles bound together by microbes, forming structures known as microbial mats.<br \/>\nThe post Why Geologists Love Pond Scum appeared first on Sci.News: Breaking Science News&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sci.news\/paleontology\/cambrian-microbial-mats-14725.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>Kenneth C. Gass<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature If you\u2019ve ever wondered how geologists know so much about ancient beaches and shallow oceans, they owe it all to the sand particles bound together by microbes, forming structures known as microbial mats. The post Why Geologists Love Pond Scum appeared first on Sci.News: Breaking Science News&#8230;Read MoreKenneth C. Gass<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":902003,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30330,536],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-902002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-geologists","category-science-nature"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=902002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/902003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=902002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=902002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=902002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}