{"id":3269,"date":"2008-01-28T15:33:20","date_gmt":"2008-01-28T15:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/2008\/01\/ye-gods\/"},"modified":"2008-01-28T15:33:20","modified_gmt":"2008-01-28T15:33:20","slug":"ye-gods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/2008\/01\/ye-gods\/","title":{"rendered":"Ye gods&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s <a href=https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/2007\/12\/the-problem-of-geovandalism\/>geovandalism <\/a>&#8211; and then <a href=http:\/\/www.telegraphindia.com\/1080128\/jsp\/nation\/story_8833162.jsp>there&#8217;s sheer f***ing insanity<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Thousands of pre-dinosaur fossils are scattered in the rocks of the Guryul ravine, rated by geologists as the world&#8217;s premier site for the study of species from the Permian period (299-251 million years before our time).<\/p>\n<p>These species, felled by the greatest mass extinction ever, are being wiped out a second time.<\/p>\n<p>The most fossil-rich stretch, a little over one square kilometre, houses five quarries, two of them operating now. A large part of the extractions is supplied to cement factory owners at nearby Khunmoh.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Not only is this apparently one of the more complete stratigraphic sections across the Permian-Triassic boundary, but it&#8217;s location in Kashmir means that it hasn&#8217;t actually been studied particularly well. And they&#8217;re turning it into <em>cement<\/em>. Cement! Words actually fail me. Polite ones, anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s geovandalism &#8211; and then there&#8217;s sheer f***ing insanity. Thousands of pre-dinosaur fossils are scattered in the rocks of the Guryul ravine, rated by geologists as the world&#8217;s premier site for the study of species from the Permian period (299-251 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/2008\/01\/ye-gods\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,30,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiscience","category-fossils","category-geology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}