Scientists have determined that in the mantle of our planet there are huge amounts of water
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Recently, scientists have been able to obtain evidence that under all accessible layers of our earth there are large reserves of water, which several times exceed those available on the surface of the earth.
The research team, which was engaged in the research, believes that perhaps they managed to find the answer to the long-tormented scientists minds the question: how much water is there on our planet?
As Steve Jacobson, co-author of the project, said, this discovery will help explain the cycle of all the water on the planet, in addition, it explains the huge amount of water on the surface of the earth. Scientists for decades have been looking for a place where this water is located.
A new study presents the first evidence of a theory that was advanced many years ago: huge volumes of water can be collected in the rock above the red-hot core of our planet, namely in ringwood. Water is in the rock under high pressure, which promotes the transformation of the rock into magma.
But many wonder how specialists managed to find out what is happening at a depth of 650 km from the surface of our land? The scientists explained everything fairly simply: they could hear the echo.
Throughout the United States, two thousand seismometers are located, using a network of such instruments, scientists "heard" the fluctuations that created earthquakes as they moved deeper into the earth's crust.
Specialists listened to echoes of more than five hundred earthquakes. It is known that the breed and water in different ways perceive fluctuations, due to which experts have determined at what level there is water. But scientists continued their research, modeling the pressure in the laboratory, which exists at the level where groundwater was discovered.
As a result, scientists have found that mineral ringwood like a sponge absorbs water at the molecular level, resulting in more than 1% of water (because the water-impregnated rock detains vibrations longer).
So far no one has seen this mineral, since it is at too deep a depth, from which samples are not extracted. But scientists suggest that with the formation of magma, deep water plays a primary role.
Many wonder whether people will be able to extract such useful resources in the future. But experts do not consider this possible, since it is not known how the Earth will behave if it interferes with the mantle. But scientists already the very fact of this discovery consider surprising.
Deep water is not water in the habitual state, it essentially represents the fourth aggregate state of the fluid that is inside the molecular structure of the rock. The temperature above 1000 degrees Celsius and the huge weight of the rock literally split the water molecules into hydroxyl radicals, which are easily attached to the crystal lattices of minerals.
As experts noted, if all the deep waters had risen on the surface of our planet, then above the sea level, one would only see the peaks of the highest mountains in the world.
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