(ORDO NEWS) — Where did water come from on Earth? If you think it’s from space, you’re wrong. Scientists conducted an experiment and proved that an underground reservoir of H2O gave rise to the oceans.
It turns out that water was in the Earth. One giant reservoir broke through to the surface and the oceans were formed from this.
For the first time, scientists came to this conclusion back in 2014. Then they studied the speed of waves at different depths and realized that there are not only underground currents under the ground.
A huge water tank is located at a great depth. It is he who is the progenitor of all modern oceans and those that were in the past.
A group of American researchers used 2,000 seismometers to study the depths of the Earth.
They studied more than five hundred earthquakes, analyzed them to understand which waves emanate from solid rocks and which do not.
After the study, they came to the conclusion that at a depth of about 700 km in the so-called “transition zone” there is ringwoodite.
As you know, this rock is formed only under strong pressure.
For all the time that scientists have been exploring the bowels of the Earth, they managed to find only one tiny diamond of this ringwoodite. It was also previously found in meteorites.
The peculiarity of the rock is that it consists of water, which is in the molecular structure of minerals. Ringwoodite absorbs H2O like a sponge and can contain up to 1.5% liquid.
Scientists say that even if there is only 1% water in the rock, it is at least three times more than all the oceans combined today.
This study proves that H2O on our planet appeared from the bowels of the Earth, and not from space, as scientists previously assumed.
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