{"id":42133,"date":"2019-02-18T18:09:08","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T12:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=42133"},"modified":"2019-02-18T18:09:08","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T12:39:08","slug":"scientists-discover-massive-mountains-under-earths-crust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/scientists-discover-massive-mountains-under-earths-crust\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists discover massive mountains under Earth\u2019s crust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/science\/scientists-discover-massive-mountains-under-earths-crust\/article26298122.ece\">Scientists discover massive mountains under Earth\u2019s crust<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>A team of researchers from USA and China has discovered a new layer with massive mountains in the earth\u2019s mantle. The layer lacks a formal name and is being addressed as the \u201c660 kilometers boundary\u201d. The recent discovery is expected to give new insights on the formation and evolution of Earth.<\/li>\n<li>The researchers had used data from Bolivia Earthquake, 1994 \u2013 the second largest earthquake ever recorded (8.2 on Richter scale).<\/li>\n<li>Using the data, the researchers have discovered mountains, as well as other topography on a layer located 660 kilometers downwards that separates the upper and lower mantle.<\/li>\n<li>The earth is generally classified into three layers: a) crust- The outermost layer of the earth, b) mantle which lies between the crust and the core and is divided into upper and lower mantle and c) core- the deepest zone of the earth which is again divided into the outer and inner core.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists discover massive mountains under Earth\u2019s crust A team of researchers from USA and China has discovered a new layer with massive mountains in the earth\u2019s mantle. The layer lacks a formal name and is being addressed as the \u201c660 kilometers boundary\u201d. The recent discovery is expected to give new insights on the formation and&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/scientists-discover-massive-mountains-under-earths-crust\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Scientists discover massive mountains under Earth\u2019s crust<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704886350},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}