{"id":30475,"date":"2018-05-08T11:25:18","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T11:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=30475"},"modified":"2018-05-08T11:25:18","modified_gmt":"2018-05-08T11:25:18","slug":"new-zealand-sinkhole-reveals-glimpse-into-60000-year-old-volcano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/new-zealand-sinkhole-reveals-glimpse-into-60000-year-old-volcano\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand sinkhole reveals glimpse into 60,000-year-old volcano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new sinkhole on a North Island farm as deep as four double-decker buses and almost the length of two football fields has grabbed the attention of New Zealand volcanologists.<\/p>\n<p>The chasm appeared after heavy rainfall near the town of Rotorua and left a jagged scar on the landscape, exposing rock deposits from 60,000 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Experts believe rain dissolved underground limestone over thousands of years, eventually causing the ground to collapse and create the canyon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is pretty spectacular, it\u2019s a lot bigger than the ones I\u2019d normally see,\u201d volcanologist Brad Scott said of the chasm measuring 20 metres (66 foot) deep and 200 metres (660 feet) long.<\/p>\n<p>Scott said the dairy farm where the fissure appeared lay on the crater of a long-dormant volcano.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat I see in the bottom of the hole is the original 60,000-year-old volcanic deposit that came out of this crater,\u201d he told TVNZ.<\/p>\n<p>Farmer Colin Tremain said the sinkhole appeared overnight last week and was spotted by one of his workers during an early morning round to attend the cows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new sinkhole on a North Island farm as deep as four double-decker buses and almost the length of two football fields has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30476,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30477,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30475\/revisions\/30477"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}