{"id":184243,"date":"2024-03-02T17:23:50","date_gmt":"2024-03-02T23:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/the-earths-crust-flipped-upside-down-in-this-spot-scientists-find"},"modified":"2024-03-02T17:23:50","modified_gmt":"2024-03-02T23:23:50","slug":"the-earths-crust-flipped-upside-down-in-this-spot-scientists-find","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/the-earths-crust-flipped-upside-down-in-this-spot-scientists-find","title":{"rendered":"The Earth\u2019s Crust Flipped Upside Down in This Spot, Scientists Find"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-earths-crust-flipped-upside-down-in-this-spot-scientists-find2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 2010, scientists detected unusual seismic waves under Granada, Spain, which eventually led to a surprising finding: an oceanic slab that had completely flipped upside down as it was being pushed beneath its neighbor.<\/p>\n<p>As detailed in a <a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.geoscienceworld.org\/ssa\/tsr\/article\/4\/1\/52\/635220\/Revealing-the-Secrets-of-the-Western-Mediterranean\" class=\"\">new paper<\/a> published in the journal <em>The Seismic Record<\/em>, the team found that the \u201cAlboran slab,\u201d which meets the Eurasian slab just east of the Straits of Gibraltar, \u201chas been overturned.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the first time such a discovery has been made, the researchers claim. And it\u2019s due to \u201chydrous magnesium silicates,\u201d roughly 370 miles beneath the surface, indicating that water on the slab\u2019s surface had not only been pushed under, but had also been folded over and pulled beneath the slab as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2010, scientists detected unusual seismic waves under Granada, Spain, which eventually led to a surprising finding: an oceanic slab that had completely flipped upside down as it was being pushed beneath its neighbor. As detailed in a new paper published in the journal The Seismic Record, the team found that the \u201cAlboran slab,\u201d which [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184243","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=184243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}