Posted on 11/12/2017 4:53:54 PM PST by BenLurkin
It's called the "shadow zone" and it lies around two kilometres below the surface in an ocean abyss where trapped water dates back to the fourth century. This ancient water, which is between 1000 and 2000 years old, dates back to when the ancient Germanic tribe the Goths instigated the end of the Western Roman Empire and the rise of Medieval Europe.
Lying in a 6000km by 2000km patch of the North Pacific Ocean between 1km and 2.5km below the surface, the shadow zone's reason for existence has remained a mystery until now.
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"Abyssal ocean overturning shaped by sea floor distribution" explains that the zone has barely any vertical movement because factors prevent it from rising. The zone lies between rising currents caused by the rough topography and geothermal heat sources below 2.5km and the shallower wind driven currents closer to the surface.
"When this isolated shadow zone traps millennia old ocean water it also traps nutrients and carbon which have a direct impact on the capacity of the ocean to modify climate over centennial timescales," said the paper's fellow author Dr Fabien Roquet of Stockholm University.
(Excerpt) Read more at qt.com.au ...
I’m thinking that the date is to make it headline worthy. And I doubt that anything is “trapped” - but just an area of the ocean that has very slow circulation. Go back in 100 years and the oldest water will be from 500 AD. (Of course maybe their sample jar missed the 300 AD water by a few feet.)
Fresh water only!
Okay, that makes sense.
(I’m obviously not a science major) ;)
I drink 18,000 year old water.
Yes I said 18,000 years old.
Straight out of the tap. It is so delicious and pure.
http://articles.latimes.com/1999/dec/12/news/mn-43103
That’s how I usually handle it too. :)
It’s probably still Bush’s fault
Taste.
Ocean Thermal Power touted a side benefit of bringing this nutrient laden cold water to the warm tropical surface waters as a source of nourishment for the base of the food chain pyramid. OTEC might be justified in support of ocean farming, rather than an economically competitive primary power source.
“How do they determine the age of the water?”
Easy. All water is as old as the earth after the original making with the follow on of meteorites. So it’s all old.
That is unless you believe that the joining of oxygen and hydrogen can happen and create new water, then the question comes up how come we don’t have too much water when people are telling us we are running short since there is so much hydrogen and oxygen?
And if we are running short, and all it takes is the joining of two hydrogen molecules and one oxygen molecule, then why not just make some?
God I don’t feel any better now.
rwood
Wanna keep a liberal occupied? Ask him what year Christ thought it was.
rwood
It leads to, a uh, a profound sense of fatigue... a feeling of emptiness. After drinking old bottled water once, luckily I ... I was able to interpret these feelings correctly. Loss of essence. I can assure you it has not recurred, Adams. Women uh... women sense my power and they seek the life essence. I, uh... I do not avoid women, Adams. But I... I do deny them my essence. All I drink now is pure, distilled Brawndo, premium gasoline or jet fuel.
What I don’t understand is how the Goths managed to trap the water. They were nowhere near the Pacific Ocean.
Thanks Jet Jaguar. The Briny Deep ping.
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Whoops! And thanks Rushmore Rocks!
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