Study: Deep beneath the earth, more water than in all the oceans combined

Washington Post ^ | 6/16/15 | Terrence McCoy

[LibWhacker]

By June 16, 2014 (NASA) (Source: NASA)

In the remote and forested terrain of Juina in western Brazil, an ugly rock with an uglier name surfaced months ago inside a diamond mine. It was a tiny green crystal, all scars and bumps. It “literally look[ed] like [it had] been to hell and back,” one scientist said in March. But despite the provenance, the ringwoodite stone wasn’t scorched — it was, in fact, sopping wet.

Providing an unparalleled glimpse into the our planet’s innards, the stone rode a violent volcanic eruption to the surface from 325 miles inside the Earth’s mantle. “The eruption … is analogous to dropping a Mentos mint into a bottle of soda,” Graham Pearson, a geochemist at the University of Alberta, told LiveScience. “It’s a very energetic, gas-charged reaction that blasts its way to the Earth’s surface.”

It was one of the first times anyone had seen the sponge-like ringwoodite in anything but a meteorite or a laboratory. Formed only in conditions of extreme pressure, it is composed of 1.5 percent water and appeared to confirm that the Earth’s insides are very, very wet. “It translates into a very, very large mass of water, approaching the sort of mass of water that’s present in all the world’s ocean,” Pearson said.

[x1stcav]

Let’s see. First peak oil was discredited. And now peak water?

[vpintheak]

To me, this is a confirmation of the Biblical flood. It also could be part of the reason why the large plates on the earth keep moving around.

[Cincinnatus.45-70]

I know some Bible-believing Christians who have been saying for years that this is what happened to the waters of the Flood. The Flood simply soaked into the earth.

[Uncle Miltie]

This is impossible because climate change.

[fishtank]

“In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life,

in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month,

on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst forth,

and the windows of the heavens were opened.”

NKJV

Gen 7:11

[Zuben Elgenubi]

“It translates into a very, very large mass of water, approaching the sort of mass of water that’s present in all the world’s ocean,”

That's a pretty bold suggestion, given he's looking at ONE rock.

[fishtank]

Count me in.

[Proud2BeRight]

HUH????
I just saw another FR - Washington Post article: New NASA data show how the world is running out of water
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3300912/posts

[ExCTCitizen]

The answer to California’s water problems. Jerry Moonbeam will tax citizens 75% to get citizens water...

[BBell]

ping?

[Lake Living]

Read Genesis, God likes water! But next time, no flood.

[P-Marlowe]

Once again Scientists prove the Bible to be true.

Well this could explain the question of where all the water went after Noah’s flood. :-)

[BBell]

The oceans weren’t perhaps the product of icy comets as earlier research theorized, but were the result of geological and tectonic activity that drove water to the surface.

Europa?

[Rio]

Some technical explanations here at livescience.com

[Raycpa]

And its a good thing, too, Jacobsen told New Scientist: “We should be grateful for this deep reservoir. If it wasn’t there, it would be on the surface of the Earth, and mountain tops would be the only land poking out.”

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The waters swelled and increased greatly on the earth; and the ark floated on the face of the waters. 19 The waters swelled so mightily on the earth that all the high mountains under the whole heaven were covered; 20 the waters swelled above the mountains, covering them fifteen cubits deep.

[MUDDOG]

They found it in Journey to the Center of the Earth.

[Red Badger]

Gonna need fracking to get it!...........................

[Red Badger]

Fracking will solve their problem......................

[LibWhacker]

LOL, that’s why I posted it... Keep everyone on their toes. :-)

Does look contradictory at first glance, but I believe this water is much further down than the aquifers. Still... It’d be nice if they could tap it. I’ve seen some estimates that there may be ten times more water underground than in all the earth’s oceans.