{"id":115934,"date":"2020-11-16T10:22:38","date_gmt":"2020-11-16T18:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/former-piece-of-pacific-ocean-floor-imaged-deep-beneath-china"},"modified":"2020-11-16T10:22:38","modified_gmt":"2020-11-16T18:22:38","slug":"former-piece-of-pacific-ocean-floor-imaged-deep-beneath-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/former-piece-of-pacific-ocean-floor-imaged-deep-beneath-china","title":{"rendered":"Former piece of Pacific Ocean floor imaged deep beneath China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/former-piece-of-pacific-ocean-floor-imaged-deep-beneath-china.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a study that gives new meaning to the term \u201crock bottom,\u201d seismic researchers have discovered the underside of a rocky slab of Earth\u2019s surface layer, or lithosphere, that has been pulled more than 400 miles beneath northeastern China by the process of tectonic subduction.<\/p>\n<p>The study, published by a team of Chinese and U.S. researchers in <i>Nature Geoscience<\/i>, offers news evidence about what happens to water-rich oceanic tectonic plates as they are drawn through Earth\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/mantle\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">mantle<\/a> beneath continents.<\/p>\n<p>Rice University seismologist Fenglin Niu, a co-corresponding author, said the study provides the first high-resolution seismic images of the top and bottom boundaries of a rocky, or lithospheric, tectonic plate within a key region known as the mantle transition zone, which starts about 254 miles (410 kilometers) below Earth\u2019s surface and extends to about 410 miles (660 kilometers).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a study that gives new meaning to the term \u201crock bottom,\u201d seismic researchers have discovered the underside of a rocky slab of Earth\u2019s surface layer, or lithosphere, that has been pulled more than 400 miles beneath northeastern China by the process of tectonic subduction. The study, published by a team of Chinese and U.S. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115934","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=115934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}