{"id":693924,"date":"2021-06-22T11:09:59","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T15:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=693924"},"modified":"2021-06-22T11:09:59","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T15:09:59","slug":"subduction-initiation-may-depend-on-a-tectonic-plates-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=693924","title":{"rendered":"Subduction initiation may depend on a tectonic plate&#039;s history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Subduction zones are cornerstone components of plate tectonics, with one plate sliding beneath another back into Earth&#8217;s mantle. But the very beginning of this process\u2014subduction initiation\u2014remains somewhat mysterious to scientists because most of the geological record of subduction is buried and overwritten by the extreme forces at play. The only way to understand how subduction zones get started is to look at young examples on Earth today.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2021-06-subduction-tectonic-plate-history.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Subduction initiation may depend on a tectonic plate&#8217;s history<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Subduction zones are cornerstone components of plate tectonics, with one plate sliding beneath another back into Earth&#8217;s mantle. But the very beginning of this process\u2014subduction initiation\u2014remains somewhat mysterious to scientists&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-693924","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\/693924","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=693924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693924\/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=693924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=693924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=693924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}