{"id":1486,"date":"2015-02-09T16:22:17","date_gmt":"2015-02-09T16:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ggblog\/?p=1486"},"modified":"2015-02-09T16:22:17","modified_gmt":"2015-02-09T16:22:17","slug":"kate-rychert-features-in-nature-on-the-slippery-base-of-a-tectonic-plate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ggblog\/2015\/02\/kate-rychert-features-in-nature-on-the-slippery-base-of-a-tectonic-plate\/","title":{"rendered":"Kate Rychert features in Nature on &#8220;The slippery base of a tectonic plate&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Last week,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.southampton.ac.uk\/oes\/about\/staff\/cr1c09.page\">Kate Rychert<\/a> had a news and views piece published in the journal <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nature\/journal\/v518\/n7537\/full\/518039a.html\">Nature <\/a>discussing the recent discovery of a sharp base to the lithosphere (&lt;1km) beneath New Zealand (Nature Letter:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nature\/journal\/v518\/n7537\/full\/nature14146.html\">A seismic reflection image for the base of a tectonic plate<\/a>). Surprisingly, a 10 km thick low-seismic-velocity channel was also found at the base of the Pacific plate.\u00a0 This has been proposed as a very thin but weak layer that decouples the lithosphere from the underlying asthenosphere, thus allowing for plates at the earth\u2019s surface to \u2018slide\u2019 over mantle below, as required for plate tectonics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Kate\u2019s summary and insights can be read in full <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nature\/journal\/v518\/n7537\/full\/518039a.html#author-information\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Written by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.southampton.ac.uk\/oes\/about\/staff\/cme1v14.page\">Caroline Eakin<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week,\u00a0Kate Rychert had a news and views piece published in the journal Nature discussing the recent discovery of a sharp base to the lithosphere (&lt;1km) beneath New Zealand (Nature Letter:\u00a0A seismic reflection image for the base of a tectonic plate). Surprisingly, a 10 km thick low-seismic-velocity channel was also found at the base of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ggblog\/2015\/02\/kate-rychert-features-in-nature-on-the-slippery-base-of-a-tectonic-plate\/\">Read More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kate Rychert features in Nature on &#8220;The slippery base of a tectonic plate&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":73780,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ggblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ggblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ggblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ggblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/73780"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ggblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1486"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ggblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1488,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ggblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486\/revisions\/1488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ggblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ggblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ggblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}