Posted on 05/08/2023 4:30:17 AM PDT by george76
It feels like there have been staggering science stories emerging every other day recently...
First, there was the discovery of a terrifying black hole pointing right at us, then there was a huge hole found in the sun and a missing continent found after going missing for 375 years.
Now, people are only just realising that there’s a massive ocean hidden under the Earth’s crust.
It turns out there’s a huge supply of water 400 miles underground stored in rock known as 'ringwoodite'.
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Scientists previously discovered that water is stored inside mantle rock in a sponge-like state, which isn’t a liquid, solid or a gas, but instead a fourth state.
The scientific paper titled ‘Dehydration melting at the top of the lower mantle’ .
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"The ringwoodite is like a sponge, soaking up water, there is something very special about the crystal structure of ringwoodite that allows it to attract hydrogen and trap water,"..
"This mineral can contain a lot of water under conditions of the deep mantle,”
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we are finally seeing evidence for a whole-Earth water cycle, which may help explain the vast amount of liquid water on the surface of our habitable planet. Scientists have been looking for this missing deep water for decades."
Scientists made the findings at the time after studying earthquakes and discovering that seismometers were picking up shockwaves under the surface of the Earth.
From that, they were able to establish that the water was being held in the rock known as ringwoodite.
If the rock contained just 1 per cent water, it would mean that there is three times more water under the surface of the Earth than there is in the oceans on the surface.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
They found a continent recently?
I missed that story.
Wait until they find out that it’s hot, and gushing into the oceans.
Isn’t science wonderful? They just now figured out what the Bible has told us for centuries. Genesis 2:6
Read "The Science of God" Gerald Schroeder. "In The Science of God, distinguished physicist and Biblical scholar Gerald L. Schroeder demonstrates the surprising parallels between a variety of Biblical teachings and the findings of biochemists, paleontologists, astrophysicists, and quantum physicists."
Yes, we knew about this from Journey to the Center of the Earth!
Turns out it was a documentary - like 1984.
Nuts... you beat me to the Once in a Lifetime reference...
I missed that story."
Nasa finds "Water on Mars"
"Massive Ocean discovered...."under planet earth
Does that mean that there may be "life" on planet earth?
So maybe there is water on other planets that is just hidden. Good news, cause I’d like to get off this one. ;)
This is relatively old news. This was reported on several years ago. I referenced this in a class for seminary for a paper on the flood account in Genesis.
My first thought as well
They thought oil in shale rock was “locked up” unti it wasn’t.
It’s been my beliefs that this is where our oil comes from. Very very deep water enriched with minerals from it’s passage thru the earth crust is cooked and oil is formed. But the thought of these basins are larger than surface water is just too much to believe...
“At his house in Rlyeh, dead Cthulu waits dreaming...”
H. P. Lovecraft
Sounds like late night radio topic
“….and the fountains of the great deep opened….”
An Almighty God would have no difficulty putting water where He wanted it and retrieving it when He needed it. The Book He wrote describes the source of the water. Whats to wonder about or discuss? The fact that the Bible talks of the “great deep” is telling In that most people who live and have ever lived think the source was forty days and forty nights of rain.
Indeed. And could do so again, to reset things...
That was my first thought too! loved that movie!
yes.
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