MORDOR ON EARTH? MAGMA FROM THE DEPTHS OF HELL IS SEEPING THROUGH A MYSTERIOUS CRACK

[Judi Lynn]

DECEMBER 28, 2021, 8:11 PM ET

Somewhere in central Panama, there is an almost unearthly phenomenon of an opening going deep into the mantle.

By Elizabeth Rayne



Photo: Arctic-Images/Getty Images

Earth isn’t going to open up its gaping maw, dragonlike, and swallow us all into the inferno anytime soon, but it is exhaling hot breath somewhere under Panama.

This obviously sounds like either Mordor or a volcano. While you couldn’t blame this immediately coming to the minds of hardcore LOTR fans –– since Smaug doesn’t move around his lair much unless he’s agitated, and Mordor is pretty much the dragon of all volcanic structures that have ever existed in fantasy –– this isn’t even an actual volcano. It is a literal opening to the molten depths of magma. Is this dark magic? More like plate tectonics.

Volcanic gases are being breathed out through that opening even though there is no actual volcano. They come from the Galapagos plume, which is over 900 miles away, and seep through a crack between tectonic plates. What is in those gases can tell researcher David Bekaert, of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and his investigating team where this geophysical anomaly leads to and why it even exists. Bekaert led a study recently published in PNAS.

But how could a portal to hell over a thousand miles deep have yawned open and still be thought to keep opening over time? More research needs to be done, but Bekaert has an idea.

More:
https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/tectonic-plate-gap-in-panama-result-of-subduction-gap

[abqtommy]

1. We're used to the historical and recent explosive effects of volcanoes but volcanism

also explains any seepage of magma from the earth's core to the surface. Nature
never ceases to amaze!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcanism

[2naSalit]

3. You should see the lava benches...

In southern Idaho. Idaho is interesting because it exhibits massive evidence of different types of volcanoes, such as shield volcanoes but also numerous cinder cones in the same area while north of that is the Idaho Batholith, a massive blob of magma a mile high above the surface covering an area the size of a small state. Idaho is one of the most geologically interesting states.

[Delphinus]

4. I drove through Idaho

twenty+ years ago and was fascinated by those. I really want to go back sometime and explore.

[MontanaMama]

9. There's an earthquake in Stanley, Idaho

daily if not multiple times per day. That’s north of Twin Falls and maybe not as far south as what you’re referring to but something is definitely active under the surface in that part of the state.

[2naSalit]

12. THere are little quakes all along the fringe...

Of the Snake River Plain (SRP) all the time. Amazingly, the SRP was mostly cut by the hot spot magma pool that is now under Yellowstone, it made the cinder cones, some of which I have been atop, and those are surrounded by basalt beds including Craters of the Moon NM. I spent a lot of time checking out the geologic layout of the region with the guidance of geologists (I had fun in college), so I learned a lot about the area while I lived there.

So the constant earthquakes are up near where DemoTex (Now under a new handle) was last stationed as a fire lookout, too. Central Idaho is usually moving somewhere. I remember back around the late 1990s when there was a lot of talk about a portion of northern SRP showed signs of an accretion zone indicating it may be the point where the NAmer. tectonic plate and the western Asia plate crashed into each other before, heaven knows when, breaking off at the now, more or less, Pacific coast. I went to see that and Mt Borah and the fault scarp from a major quake some fifty years ago.

The batholith, as I understand it but I could be off about this, was a large blob of magma that just oozed up and set. I have no idea of the time frame but it was longer ago than many of the features I have already mentioned. My brain kind of fogs up at this point.

[modrepub]

2. Plate Tectonics

is a relatively new theory only becoming generally accepted by the scientific community in the 1960s. It's on par with evolution (if not above) in everyday importance and just as controversial.

Like evolution, there are large fractions of the population who don't accept Plate Tectonic due to their "beliefs". These include just about anyone who disregards climate change arguments since the carbon cycle is an off-shoot of Plate Tectonics.

[Marthe48]

5. Seems like the more we know the less it matters

In early human history, many of the myths protected Nature from human predation. Then, as time went on, the myths were adapted, explained, or debunked. Much like a woman removing her clothes, the mystery of Nature is slowly revealed and the magic disappears.

[cagefreesoylentgreen]

8. I don't understand your comment

Are you suggesting magical thinking is preferable to empirical evidence?

[Marthe48]

11. Not at all

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Part of the human condition is learning, whether by experience, example, or necessity. While humans were becoming sentient, they told stories trying to explain what they didn't understand. Many times, the stories protected aspects of Nature. Trees were sacred, so they were protected. Even today, Hawaiians have a warning legend that if you take sand from the islands, you'll have bad luck. So legends like that protected or protect, a part of the natural world. As time went on, humans understood more and more about the world, and as I said, changed the legends to suit their needs. Individual trees didn't really house spirits, so they became fair game for use. I think the legend about the sand is holding up. If it isn't, all we have to do is see what is happening to Nauru to see that there is a good reason to keep islands intact!

What I'm trying to say is that as humans learned about the world, we moved from living with Nature to exploiting it. In spite of what we are learning about the balance in Nature, we are abusing all of the world systems, and our reign on the Earth is not going to end well.

[cagefreesoylentgreen]

16. That makes much more sense

Thank you.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

14. Evolution is not controversial. Or is plate tectonics, outside the scientific community.

Outside the specialized science community maybe it’s flat earth kind of controversy…controversy is wrong word for that…closer to “crazy” being the right word…The rest of all the other communities is irrelevant.

[modrepub]

15. Scientists Are Part of the Community

What happened to Fauci since 2020 is par for the course for most scientists. While not rising to harassment levels, I've had folks directly challenge that the ground they're standing on moves about an inch a year, that gravity changes (ever so slightly) over different parts of the earth and the old "knee high by the 4th of July" rule of thumb for corn growth is now out of date because of climate change.

You can't ignore these folks because there's enough of them that they can exert political force to undo any policy decisions based largely on sound scientific principles. That's what's happened for nearly 40 years on the Climate Change front. Ignore it or discount it at your peril. These folks are loud and influential. COVID has only exposed what the scientific community has had to deal with for generations.

[Martin Eden]

6. Can this geologic event be used to forge Rings of Power?

If so, Trump and his servants need to be kept away from it.

[SCantiGOP]

10. Trump is obviously

the head Orc.

👻

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

13. I think of Trump more as a bargain-basement Saruman

Without either the skills or the intelligence.

[cstanleytech]

18. Actually Trump is more like the Great Goblin from The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.

[niyad]

7. Thank you, as always, for this most fascinating find.

[cstanleytech]

17. It's late so maybe I am mistaken but didn't you already make a post about the same thing last week?

[BComplex]

19. If that's the case, I'm glad that it's been re-posted!

I missed this, and I'm really glad I've heard about it now.

Ok, maybe it's the American Indian teachings, but people are going through tremendous changes right now, and we are part and parcel of the earth. She's not just our Mother, she's us. If the earth is going through all that, there's no way we wouldn't be also. Everything is energy and mass. And it's all related. WE are all related.

If there is a 1,000 mile deep split in the earth, then that tells me that the Mother is rearranging geography again in a dramatic way. And the United States isn't united. Neither are the land masses, apparently. It's all one thing, just with different classrooms or labels.