{"id":169893,"date":"2023-08-17T21:27:09","date_gmt":"2023-08-18T02:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/scientists-uncover-source-of-unusual-deformation-in-earths-largest-continental-rift"},"modified":"2023-08-17T21:27:09","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T02:27:09","slug":"scientists-uncover-source-of-unusual-deformation-in-earths-largest-continental-rift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/scientists-uncover-source-of-unusual-deformation-in-earths-largest-continental-rift","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Uncover Source of Unusual Deformation in Earth\u2019s Largest Continental Rift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-uncover-source-of-unusual-deformation-in-earths-largest-continental-rift.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Computer simulations confirm that the African Superplume causes the unusual deformations and rift-parallel seismic anisotropy detected below the East African Rift System.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Continental rifting involves a combination of stretching and fracturing that penetrates deep within the Earth, explains geophysicist D. Sarah Stamps. This process pertains to the elongation of the lithosphere, Earth\u2019s rigid outer layer. As it becomes more taut, the lithosphere\u2019s upper sections undergo brittle changes, leading to rock fractures and earthquakes.<\/p>\n<p>Stamps, who studies these processes by using computer modeling and GPS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Computer simulations confirm that the African Superplume causes the unusual deformations and rift-parallel seismic anisotropy detected below the East African Rift System. Continental rifting involves a combination of stretching and fracturing that penetrates deep within the Earth, explains geophysicist D. Sarah Stamps. This process pertains to the elongation of the lithosphere, Earth\u2019s rigid outer layer. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169893","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}