{"id":184995,"date":"2024-03-13T00:23:35","date_gmt":"2024-03-13T05:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/seismological-study-shows-ancient-lower-mantle-flow-field-under-philippine-sea-plate"},"modified":"2024-03-13T00:23:35","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T05:23:35","slug":"seismological-study-shows-ancient-lower-mantle-flow-field-under-philippine-sea-plate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/seismological-study-shows-ancient-lower-mantle-flow-field-under-philippine-sea-plate","title":{"rendered":"Seismological study shows ancient lower mantle flow field under Philippine sea plate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/seismological-study-shows-ancient-lower-mantle-flow-field-under-philippine-sea-plate3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers from China and Japan have discovered distinct characteristics of Earth\u2019s lower mantle flow field. They investigated seismic anisotropy in the upper part of the lower mantle beneath the Philippine Sea Plate (PSP) and found that the ancient lower mantle flow field is still preserved there.<\/p>\n<p>The study is published in Nature Geoscience.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/lower+mantle\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">lower mantle<\/a> is an important layer of the Earth and may play an important role in the evolution and material cycling of Earth\u2019s interior. It is generally believed to be not only the final destination of subducted slabs, but also the birthplace of mantle plumes, which are two major styles in the evolution and material cycling of the Earth\u2019s surface and interior. However, our knowledge of the characteristics of the flow field and geodynamics of the lower mantle is still deficient.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from China and Japan have discovered distinct characteristics of Earth\u2019s lower mantle flow field. They investigated seismic anisotropy in the upper part of the lower mantle beneath the Philippine Sea Plate (PSP) and found that the ancient lower mantle flow field is still preserved there. The study is published in Nature Geoscience. The lower [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[385,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolution","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184995","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=184995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}