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  • 'Wind' from Earth's middle layer blows through a secret passage beneath Panama

    01/02/2022 10:06:59 AM PST · by SunkenCiv · 23 replies
    Live Science ^ | published 15 days ago | Stephanie Pappas
    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...