19:00 12 June 2014 by Andy Coghlan
A reservoir of water three times the volume of all the oceans has been discovered deep beneath the Earth's surface.
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The water is hidden inside a blue rock called ringwoodite that lies 700 kilometres underground in the mantle, the layer of hot rock between Earth's surface and its core.
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Some geologists think water arrived in comets as they struck the planet, but the new discovery supports an alternative idea that the oceans gradually oozed out of the interior of the early Earth.
More here: http://www.newscientist.com/article...covered-towards-earths-core.html#.U5q4C3JdWSp
A reservoir of water three times the volume of all the oceans has been discovered deep beneath the Earth's surface.
...
The water is hidden inside a blue rock called ringwoodite that lies 700 kilometres underground in the mantle, the layer of hot rock between Earth's surface and its core.
...
Some geologists think water arrived in comets as they struck the planet, but the new discovery supports an alternative idea that the oceans gradually oozed out of the interior of the early Earth.
More here: http://www.newscientist.com/article...covered-towards-earths-core.html#.U5q4C3JdWSp