{"id":151334,"date":"2022-11-28T19:26:05","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T01:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/in-a-first-researchers-discovered-a-rare-mineral-that-comes-directly-from-earths-lower-mantle"},"modified":"2022-11-28T19:26:05","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T01:26:05","slug":"in-a-first-researchers-discovered-a-rare-mineral-that-comes-directly-from-earths-lower-mantle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/in-a-first-researchers-discovered-a-rare-mineral-that-comes-directly-from-earths-lower-mantle","title":{"rendered":"In a first, researchers discovered a rare mineral that comes directly from Earth\u2019s lower mantle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/in-a-first-researchers-discovered-a-rare-mineral-that-comes-directly-from-earths-lower-mantle2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is \u201cthe first time that lower mantle minerals have ever been observed in nature.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Researchers claim they have discovered a rare mineral that comes directly from Earth\u2019s lower mantle-the region between the planet\u2019s core and crust \u2014 in a new study published in Science.<\/p>\n<p>However, thanks to a diamond-in which it was entrapped \u2014 the new mineral dubbed \u2018davemaoite,\u2019 managed to make the improbable voyage from at least 412 meters within the lower mantle.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Aaron celestian\/ natural history museum, LA<\/p>\n<p>The finding is a surprise because no one has or expects to retrieve such a high-pressure mineral on the Earth\u2019s surface after decades of searching.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is \u201cthe first time that lower mantle minerals have ever been observed in nature.\u201d Researchers claim they have discovered a rare mineral that comes directly from Earth\u2019s lower mantle-the region between the planet\u2019s core and crust \u2014 in a new study published in Science. However, thanks to a diamond-in which it was entrapped \u2014 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151334","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}