{"id":629975,"date":"2019-09-09T08:49:50","date_gmt":"2019-09-09T12:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=629975"},"modified":"2019-09-09T08:49:50","modified_gmt":"2019-09-09T12:49:50","slug":"new-research-provides-better-look-at-ocean-plate-under-central-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=629975","title":{"rendered":"New research provides better look at ocean plate under Central America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Convection in Earth&#8217;s mantle is the &#8220;engine&#8221; driving plate tectonics. Hot material rises to the Earth&#8217;s surface from the boundary between the planet&#8217;s core and mantle, at a depth of about 3000 kilometers. Cold material then flows downward due to oceanic tectonic plates sinking into the mantle at subduction zones on the Earth&#8217;s surface.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-09-ocean-plate-central-america.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">New research provides better look at ocean plate under Central America<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Convection in Earth&#8217;s mantle is the &#8220;engine&#8221; driving plate tectonics. Hot material rises to the Earth&#8217;s surface from the boundary between the planet&#8217;s core and mantle, at a depth of&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-629975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629975","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"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=629975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629975\/revisions"}],"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=629975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=629975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=629975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}