Earth could hold more water

Posted by Dale on Mar 08, 2002 at 10:05
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Geologists have divined water where you might least expect it: 1,000 kilometres below the Earth's surface. Here, rocks heated to over 1,000 oC and squeezed under high pressures may harbour around five times as much water as in all the world's oceans. This could give clues to how the Earth formed and how it behaves today.

http://www.nature.com/nsu/020304/020304-10.html

Let’s see, 5 times as much water as in all the world’s oceans. How deep would that be if it were once the surface? The average depth of the oceans is about 12,000 feet. So we could just do a simple calculation and… Uhhh…. WOW! That would cover all the surface of the earth including even the highest mountains. That would be some flood, wouldn’t it? ;)


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