{"id":325614,"date":"2017-06-05T16:06:34","date_gmt":"2017-06-05T20:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=fa0d76a87cdc0d5054b1cc97010378a8"},"modified":"2017-06-05T16:06:34","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T20:06:34","slug":"scientists-discover-why-rocks-flow-slowly-in-earths-middle-mantle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=325614","title":{"rendered":"Scientists discover why rocks flow slowly in Earth&#8217;s middle mantle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For decades, researchers have studied the interior of the Earth using seismic waves from earthquakes. Now a recent study, led by Arizona State University&#8217;s School of Earth and Space Exploration Associate Professor Dan Shim, has re-created in the laboratory the conditions found deep in the Earth, and used this to discover an important property of the dominant mineral in Earth&#8217;s mantle, a region lying far below our feet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For decades, researchers have studied the interior of the Earth using seismic waves from earthquakes. Now a recent study, led by Arizona State University&#8217;s School of Earth and Space Exploration Associate Professor Dan Shim, has re-created in the labora&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-325614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=325614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325615,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325614\/revisions\/325615"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=325614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=325614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=325614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}