Posted on 08/31/2024 1:53:18 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
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’ was published in 2014 and laid out the findings.
"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," said geophysicist Steve Jacobsen at the time.
"This mineral can contain a lot of water under conditions of the deep mantle,” added Jacobsen, who was part of the team behind the discovery.
He added: "I think 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.
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Wait a minute. Algore told us was a million degrees right under our feet.
Wait a minute. Algore told us was a million degrees right under our feet.
You called it groundwater and claimed people knew about it for ages.
The article says this is a recent discovery.
You aren’t serious are you?
People have been digging wells for over 10,000 years. They knew groundwater existed. Civilizations were built around it, Jerusalem For example.
A discovery of new sources of underground water even deeper doesn’t change that fact, and also doesn’t prove the global flood myth.
Yup.
Little Gretel Thunderbutt’s head just exploded.
That would release green house gases. She’d just let it swell and change colors.
“Of course, it mostly is found at depths of over 400 miles under the surface. Is this a weird curiosity or is it significant in some way?”
A significant reason why Mars is a dead world, even though it started off with liquid oceans and a similar to Earth atmosphere is because it does not have a liquid core or a magnetic field. The magnetic field comes from the molten iron core in the Earth. The lack of these things allowed the sun to blast away Mars’ atmosphere. I mention this to say, yeah, the stuff under our feet is important.
Oil has been found miles below the surface, far deeper than any fossils. It is hypothesized that there’s a huge biome under the Earth’s surface where biological agents create oil which then floats upward. Wells drilled in the forties have been reopened and are pumping oil, which had to come from somewhere. This discovery of water probably relates to the Earth’s “oil cycle.” In other words, there is no “peak oil.”
Edgar Rice Boroughs wrote of Pellucidar at the earth’s core, where dinosaurs are the top intelligence and people are mere primitives. Sent Tarzan there for a while, too.
Isn’t this Pellucidar? and do dinosaurs live there?
Well there's always the thugs for theology contingent on the religion forum for inspiration and emulation unto righteousness.
Love it.
A masterpiece of ingenuity right there.
Wouldn’t that have been Jules Verne.
…And the fountains of the great deep opened…
“Humans have known about ground water for over 10,000 years.“
We’re not talking about water in the high or even deep aquifers here. That water fell from the sky and there isn’t enough of it in the oceans, aquifers or atmosphere to flood the entire earth. The water under discussion is in the rock.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Narrative_of_Arthur_Gordon_Pym_of_Nantucket
I think that’s his only novel. I know it influenced HP Lovecraft greatly.
Freegards
Thanx. I was thinking of Journey to the Center of the Earth.
Did you even read the article?
It’s not about groundwater.
Nobody is digging a well to 350 - 400 miles deep to get the water this article is talking about.
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