{"id":28211,"date":"2026-03-31T16:48:42","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T16:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/03\/31\/when-did-the-earths-crust-start-to-shift-scientists-uncover-evidence-of-plate-tectonics-happening-3-48-billion-years-ago-smithsonian-magazine\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T16:48:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T16:48:42","slug":"when-did-the-earths-crust-start-to-shift-scientists-uncover-evidence-of-plate-tectonics-happening-3-48-billion-years-ago-smithsonian-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/03\/31\/when-did-the-earths-crust-start-to-shift-scientists-uncover-evidence-of-plate-tectonics-happening-3-48-billion-years-ago-smithsonian-magazine\/","title":{"rendered":"When Did the Earth&#8217;s Crust Start to Shift? Scientists Uncover Evidence of Plate Tectonics Happening 3.48 Billion Years Ago &#8211; Smithsonian Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMigwJBVV95cUxPR0FsNkVBX0I1LU9VMjNOLXNJXzVBX3N5azVWNVdoVkJMQjdUcThleTZuTkt3V3hSUGlwWHNucVhaQ05SMXJRZk53VExfWVlVYVNiZVNJaDlEbjM1b2haendDZGJ2V0ZmUGZMMy1yMjllQmtBV0l5a20xbE9WNk9IaUkxZ0VaeG1udHJBT0JIOTVYelU4eHVkRzRnMlRLTnpPQUxJWlNOTG56QTY2LTZVM3lzQnlIakNteWlIaGlvRzdNb3hQVVVVYllRRXJfdms3d1JtR2VKRk5waXltbUJjQXBsSnJLUS1iMF90Q3RfYTV1dVN4V3BEU1dhYUFFSXJYMWFJ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">When Did the Earth&#8217;s Crust Start to Shift? Scientists Uncover Evidence of Plate Tectonics Happening 3.48 Billion Years Ago<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">Smithsonian Magazine<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Did the Earth&#8217;s Crust Start to Shift? Scientists Uncover Evidence of Plate Tectonics Happening 3.48 Billion Years Ago&nbsp;&nbsp;Smithsonian Magazine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}