Scientists unearth 20 million years of 'hot spot' magmatism under the Cocos Plate en (phys.org)
Ten years ago, Samer Naif made an unexpected discovery in Earth's mantle: a narrow pocket, proposed to be filled with magma, hidden some 60 kilometers beneath the seafloor of the Cocos Plate.
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