A hot spring in Panama where researchers collected fluids and gases to trace the movement of materials from the mantle.Image credit: Peter Barry/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Posted on 01/02/2022 10:06:59 AM PST by SunkenCiv
A geological secret passage beneath Panama may explain why rocks from Earth's mantle are found more than 1,000 miles (1,609 kilometers) from where they originated.
This opening, located some 62 miles (100 km) below Earth's surface, may allow a flow of mantle materials to travel all the way from beneath the Galápagos Islands to beneath Panama.
This never-before-discovered form of transport may also help explain why Panama has very few active volcanoes. On the west coast of Central America, the Cocos tectonic plate is diving down and pushes oceanic crust under the continental crust of the North American, Caribbean and Panama tectonic plates, a process called subduction. This subduction zone creates a line of volcanoes called the Central American Volcanic Arc where lava pushes through the boundaries. But the volcanism stops in western Panama, which sits on the Panama plate , said David Bekaert, a postdoctoral scholar in marine chemistry and geochemistry at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts.
This relative peace has long been a mystery. Now, Bekaert and his colleagues report in a new study published Nov. 23 in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that the culprit may be a window-like opening in the Cocos tectonic plate that's being pushed down toward Earth's center...
The mantle flow the team discovered is under-studied, Bekaert said, but there are unexplained anomalies in the chemistry of the mantle all over the world. The team hopes to conduct a similar analysis in Chile next, but ultimately wants to expand the method around the globe.
"No one's been thinking about this process before," Bekaert said, "so I just want to consider all the data."
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A hot spring in Panama where researchers collected fluids and gases to trace the movement of materials from the mantle.Image credit: Peter Barry/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
My theory - when the impact the Chicxulub crater was created, the shockwave created millions of smaller fractures in the earth’s crust in that region. This allows smaller volumes of fluids and gasses to escape on a regular basis.
I think it is probably graboids.
Hmmmmm.....
They need to do an MRI and a CT-scan of the earth?
Maybe a PET scan, too?
I am guessing the data is available sort of for the taking.
Nikolai Tesla could probably have answered the researcher’s questions.
I always thought it was the Icelandic volcano Snæfellsjökull that was the entry/exit point.
Very interesting! Thanks for posting.
You are probably closer to the real cause.
At one end the passage there’s a giant statue of a guy, and the inscription translates as, “pull my finger”.
The PET scan was already done on that monkey.
Earth, Wind, & Fire!
Or not I suppose.
:^)
ROFL! I couldn’t help but think of when they did Jeopardy! from Philly and Alex Trebek pulled the finger of one of the statues in Signers Hall with this wicked little grin on his face. Who knew Alex could be so mischievous?
Journey to the Center of the Earth Part II: The Canal Entry
I hate when my cat walks across my keyboard too
The floor of the Gulf of Mexico is covered in Methyl-Hydrate, thousands of feet deep from gas that escapes from cracks in the ocean floor. I have wondered if that is a by-product of that impact.
I have forgotten is the statistic I read claimed there was enough to power the world, or just the US for 300 years just laying there, but it is very deep and nobody has figured a way to extract it.
The Earth is just a wadded up ball of chewed gum that God spit out, after he was done with it.
after He was done with it.
Very Plausible
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