{"id":25852,"date":"2026-03-27T16:12:29","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T16:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/blog\/2026\/03\/27\/these-wrinkles-shouldnt-exist-a-geologists-hike-uncovers-a-180-million-year-old-mystery\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T16:12:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T16:12:29","slug":"these-wrinkles-shouldnt-exist-a-geologists-hike-uncovers-a-180-million-year-old-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/blog\/2026\/03\/27\/these-wrinkles-shouldnt-exist-a-geologists-hike-uncovers-a-180-million-year-old-mystery\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThese Wrinkles Shouldn\u2019t Exist\u201d \u2013 A Geologist\u2019s Hike Uncovers a 180-Million-Year-Old Mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/these-wrinkles-shouldnt-exist-a-geologists-hike-uncovers-a-180-million-year-old-mystery\/\" title=\"\u201cThese Wrinkles Shouldn\u2019t Exist\u201d \u2013 A Geologist\u2019s Hike Uncovers a 180-Million-Year-Old Mystery\"><\/a>Deepwater rock wrinkles likely formed from chemosynthetic microbes, not just physical processes, reshaping assumptions about ancient ecosystems. In 2016, geologist Rowan Martindale was hiking on a hillside in Morocco when she noticed something unusual: a slab of sedimentary rock marked by a wrinkled surface that resembled elephant skin. \u201cI looked at the wrinkles, and I [&#8230;]<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deepwater rock wrinkles likely formed from chemosynthetic microbes, not just physical processes, reshaping assumptions about ancient ecosystems. In 2016, geologist Rowan Martindale was hiking on a hillside in Morocco when she noticed something unusual: a slab of sedimentary rock marked by a wrinkled surface that resembled elephant skin. \u201cI looked at the wrinkles, and I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/blog\/2026\/03\/27\/these-wrinkles-shouldnt-exist-a-geologists-hike-uncovers-a-180-million-year-old-mystery\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;\u201cThese Wrinkles Shouldn\u2019t Exist\u201d \u2013 A Geologist\u2019s Hike Uncovers a 180-Million-Year-Old Mystery&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25852"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}