{"id":7863,"date":"2016-08-05T15:40:21","date_gmt":"2016-08-05T19:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=7863"},"modified":"2016-08-05T15:40:47","modified_gmt":"2016-08-05T19:40:47","slug":"7863","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/08\/7863\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists find evidence of flood that helped found China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>Washington Post<\/em> published an interesting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/speaking-of-science\/wp\/2016\/08\/04\/legends-say-china-began-in-a-great-flood-scientists-just-found-evidence-that-the-flood-was-real\/?wpisrc=nl_most-draw7&amp;wpmm=1\">article<\/a> this week on new evidence found to support their legend on the founding of the first dynasty. \u00a0In a new <a href=\"https:\/\/science.sciencemag.org\/content\/353\/6299\/538\">paper<\/a>\u00a0published Thursday in the journal <em>Science<\/em>, Wu and his colleagues describe geological evidence for a catastrophic flood on the Yellow River in about\u00a01900 B.C. \u2014 right around the time the \u201cGreat Flood\u201d was said to have taken place. \u00a0The article describes the geological methods used to identify the key flood deposits that helped pinpoint the flood timing. \u00a0Proxy\u00a0data like tree rings, ice cores and lake sediments can help us understand similar changes in climate over long time periods.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/08\/Hukou_Waterfall.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7864\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/08\/Hukou_Waterfall-300x197.jpg\" alt=\"Hukou_Waterfall\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/08\/Hukou_Waterfall-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/08\/Hukou_Waterfall-210x138.jpg 210w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/08\/Hukou_Waterfall.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post published an interesting article this week on new evidence found to support their legend on the founding of the first dynasty. \u00a0In a new paper\u00a0published Thursday in the journal Science, Wu and his colleagues describe geological evidence for a catastrophic flood on the Yellow River in about\u00a01900 B.C. \u2014 right around the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":7864,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7863"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7866,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7863\/revisions\/7866"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}