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Is Earth Leaking from the Middle?
Rock&Gem Magazine
|September 2025
Traditional wisdom holds that material contained within Earth's core is somewhat fixed and stays deep down.
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Magma may form in the lower depths of the mantle and ride plumes to the surface to erupt as volcanoes or mid-ocean rifts, but the dense metallic core stays out of it. Well, maybe not.
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