{"id":108652,"date":"2020-06-13T23:03:17","date_gmt":"2020-06-14T06:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/scientists-detect-surprise-structures-wrapped-around-earths-core"},"modified":"2020-06-13T23:03:17","modified_gmt":"2020-06-14T06:03:17","slug":"scientists-detect-surprise-structures-wrapped-around-earths-core","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/scientists-detect-surprise-structures-wrapped-around-earths-core","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Detect Surprise Structures Wrapped Around Earth\u2019s Core"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KN-N7l5spmE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Blobs of hot, dense material that curl around Earth\u2019s core are much more widespread than previous research suggests.<\/p>\n<p>A new method of analysing earthquake data has found even more of the previously detected <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/mysterious-anomalies-as-big-as-continents-inside-earth-may-be-billions-of-years-old\">continent-sized<\/a> zones at the boundary between the planet\u2019s core and mantle.<\/p>\n<p>We still don\u2019t know <em>what<\/em> these blobs are \u2014 they could be magma, molten iron leaking from the core, or something else \u2014 but with a more complete, detailed map of <em>where<\/em> they are, we can better understand the geological processes occurring deep inside Earth\u2019s interior.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blobs of hot, dense material that curl around Earth\u2019s core are much more widespread than previous research suggests. A new method of analysing earthquake data has found even more of the previously detected continent-sized zones at the boundary between the planet\u2019s core and mantle. We still don\u2019t know what these blobs are \u2014 they could [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}