{"id":157177,"date":"2023-02-07T05:23:47","date_gmt":"2023-02-07T11:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/scientists-detect-molten-rock-layer-hidden-under-earths-tectonic-plates"},"modified":"2023-02-07T05:23:47","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T11:23:47","slug":"scientists-detect-molten-rock-layer-hidden-under-earths-tectonic-plates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/scientists-detect-molten-rock-layer-hidden-under-earths-tectonic-plates","title":{"rendered":"Scientists detect molten rock layer hidden under Earth\u2019s tectonic plates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-detect-molten-rock-layer-hidden-under-earths-tectonic-plates2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have discovered a new layer of partly molten rock under the Earth\u2019s crust that might help settle a long-standing debate about how tectonic plates move.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers had previously identified patches of melt at a similar depth. But a new study led by The University of Texas at Austin revealed for the first time the layer\u2019s global extent and its part in plate tectonics.<\/p>\n<p>The research was <a href=\"http:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41561-022-01116-9\">published Feb. 6, 2023<\/a>, in the journal Nature Geoscience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have discovered a new layer of partly molten rock under the Earth\u2019s crust that might help settle a long-standing debate about how tectonic plates move. Researchers had previously identified patches of melt at a similar depth. But a new study led by The University of Texas at Austin revealed for the first time the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157177","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}