{"id":134738,"date":"2022-01-26T20:27:25","date_gmt":"2022-01-27T04:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/wild-new-paper-suggests-earths-tectonic-activity-has-an-unseen-source"},"modified":"2022-01-26T20:27:25","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T04:27:25","slug":"wild-new-paper-suggests-earths-tectonic-activity-has-an-unseen-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/wild-new-paper-suggests-earths-tectonic-activity-has-an-unseen-source","title":{"rendered":"Wild New Paper Suggests Earth\u2019s Tectonic Activity Has an Unseen Source"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/wild-new-paper-suggests-earths-tectonic-activity-has-an-unseen-source2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Earth is far from a solid mass of rock. The outer layer of our planet \u2013 known as the lithosphere \u2013 is made up of more than 20 tectonic plates; as these gargantuan slates glide about the face of the planet, we get the movement of continents, and interaction at the boundaries, not least of which is the rise and fall of entire mountain ranges and oceanic trenches.<\/p>\n<p>Yet there\u2019s some debate over what causes these giant slabs of rock to move around in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>Amongst the many hypotheses <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/science\/plate-tectonics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">put forward over the centuries<\/a>, convection currents generated by the planet\u2019s hot core have been discussed as an explanation, but it\u2019s doubtful whether this effect would produce enough energy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earth is far from a solid mass of rock. The outer layer of our planet \u2013 known as the lithosphere \u2013 is made up of more than 20 tectonic plates; as these gargantuan slates glide about the face of the planet, we get the movement of continents, and interaction at the boundaries, not least of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134738","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}