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The way I read it is, the water spring is fed from whatever lies under Panama. However, there are a lot of helium isotopes in the water from that spring. It is theorized that the helium isotopes come from the magna flow from the Galapagos, which gets into the water. IOW, the water is from Panama, but the magma (as thus, the helium isotopes) come from the Galapagos. Regardless, the interesting part is that no matter where that water comes from, magma can apparently spread out laterally rather than just making islands and volcanoes.

But that's just my reading, I'm probably just as confused.




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