Saturday, June 14, 2014

Scientists discover massive ocean of water 400 miles underground

The Verge describes a new paper published in the journal Science with the somewhat misleading title Scientists discover massive ocean of water 400 miles underground "Researchers at Northwestern University have found evidence for a massive reservoir of water deep within the Earth's mantle. The reservoir, which is said to be three times the volume of the oceans on the surface, is contained within highly-pressurized rock known as ringwoodite. The scientists hope that their findings, recently published in the journal Science, can shed light on where Earth's oceans came from."

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