{"id":9498,"date":"2017-05-20T07:54:05","date_gmt":"2017-05-20T12:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=9498"},"modified":"2017-05-20T07:54:05","modified_gmt":"2017-05-20T12:54:05","slug":"word-of-the-day-152","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/05\/20\/word-of-the-day-152\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Asthenosphere<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>About 100 kilometres below Earth\u2019s surface lies the asthenosphere, a zone of relatively free-flowing rock held between two horizontal layers of stiffer rock. Iceland\u2019s plume, they say, injects hot, runny rock into this layer that then spreads out horizontally into fingers. Other plumes don\u2019t form such tendrils, says White, because the rock within them is not sufficiently hot and runny, or injected with enough force (<i>Earth and Planetary Science Letters<\/i>, <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/b6h9\">doi.org\/b6h9<\/a>). [&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg23431241-700-strange-mantle-plume-under-iceland-helps-keep-scotland-afloat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Strange mantle plume under Iceland helps keep Scotland afloat<\/em><\/a>,&#8221; Colin Barras, <em><strong>NewScientist<\/strong><\/em> (6 May 2017)]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asthenosphere: About 100 kilometres below Earth\u2019s surface lies the asthenosphere, a zone of relatively free-flowing rock held between two horizontal layers of stiffer rock. Iceland\u2019s plume, they say, injects hot, runny rock into this layer that then spreads out horizontally into fingers. Other plumes don\u2019t form such tendrils, says White, \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/05\/20\/word-of-the-day-152\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9498"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9502,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9498\/revisions\/9502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}