{"id":90994,"date":"2019-05-20T11:03:16","date_gmt":"2019-05-20T18:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/geologists-just-discovered-a-source-of-volcanoes-deeper-than-ever-before"},"modified":"2019-05-20T11:03:16","modified_gmt":"2019-05-20T18:03:16","slug":"geologists-just-discovered-a-source-of-volcanoes-deeper-than-ever-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/geologists-just-discovered-a-source-of-volcanoes-deeper-than-ever-before","title":{"rendered":"Geologists Just Discovered a Source of Volcanoes Deeper Than Ever Before"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/geologists-just-discovered-a-source-of-volcanoes-deeper-than-ever-before2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have pinpointed a previously unknown source of volcanoes in the extreme depths of Earth \u2014 in the transition zone between the upper and lower mantle.<\/p>\n<p>Until now, we thought we had a handle on the ways in which volcanoes form, welling up from the molten regions in the upper mantle beneath our planet\u2019s crust, but the new discovery takes things much farther down.<\/p>\n<p>In the Bermuda islands, which sit atop an extinct volcanic <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Seamount\">seamount<\/a>, geologists have found the first direct evidence that material from the transition zone, between 400 and 650 kilometres (250 and 400 miles) below Earth\u2019s surface, can bubble up and be spewed out of volcanoes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/geologists-have-just-discovered-a-new-way-volcanoes-can-form\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have pinpointed a previously unknown source of volcanoes in the extreme depths of Earth \u2014 in the transition zone between the upper and lower mantle. Until now, we thought we had a handle on the ways in which volcanoes form, welling up from the molten regions in the upper mantle beneath our planet\u2019s crust, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90994","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}