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[Remainder to understand my explanation: When "lava" is under earth, it's called "magma". I had to look at Wikipedia because I never remember. https://xkcd.com/903/ ]

There is a big mantle plume under the Galapagos islands https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mantle_plume . Imagine a lot of magma, and some part of it escapes and goes to the volcanoes and you see it as lava.

They discovered that there is a "river" of magma that goes from the plume of magma under the Galapagos to Panama.

In Panama the magma meets some underneath water, an some of the gas disolved in the magma goes to the water. Then the water colds down, and after some time it appears in a few springs in Panama.

They realize this, because they analyzed the gases disolved in the water of the springs.

There is no water traveling from the Galapagos to Panama.




"There is no water traveling from the Galapagos to Panama."

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