{"id":204826,"date":"2025-01-29T08:27:16","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T14:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/two-huge-continental-sized-islands-discovered-in-earths-mantle"},"modified":"2025-01-29T08:27:16","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T14:27:16","slug":"two-huge-continental-sized-islands-discovered-in-earths-mantle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/two-huge-continental-sized-islands-discovered-in-earths-mantle","title":{"rendered":"Two huge, continental-sized islands discovered in Earth\u2019s mantle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/two-huge-continental-sized-islands-discovered-in-earths-mantle.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have discovered two enormous structures deep within Earth\u2019s mantle. Research from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techexplorist.com\/university\/utrecht-university\/\">Utrecht University<\/a> reveals these regions are hotter and older than the surrounding sunken tectonic plates\u2014at least half a billion years old, possibly older.<\/p>\n<p>This finding challenges the idea that Earth\u2019s mantle is well-mixed and fast-flowing, suggesting less <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techexplorist.com\/high-temperature-examination-opens-view-movements-earths-mantle\/12626\/\">movement in the mantle<\/a> than previously thought.<\/p>\n<p>Large earthquakes make the Earth vibrate like a bell with different tones. Seismologists study these tones to understand <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techexplorist.com\/identifying-areas-earthquake-waves-behave-differently\/95487\/\">Earth\u2019s interior<\/a>. If the tones are \u201cout of tune\u201d or quieter, it indicates anomalies, helping to create images of Earth\u2019s interior, similar to X-rays for doctors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have discovered two enormous structures deep within Earth\u2019s mantle. Research from Utrecht University reveals these regions are hotter and older than the surrounding sunken tectonic plates\u2014at least half a billion years old, possibly older. This finding challenges the idea that Earth\u2019s mantle is well-mixed and fast-flowing, suggesting less movement in the mantle than previously [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204826","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}