Massive ‘Ocean’ Discovered Deep Beneath Earth’s Surface Towards the Core

[rangerrebew]

Massive ‘Ocean’ Discovered Deep Beneath Earth’s Surface Towards the Core


 
 New Scientist
 March 25th, 2015
 
 
Editor’s Note: Hollow Earth Theory, anyone? Then again, Pluto used to be a planet and the brontosaurus was a dinosaur once upon a time…

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A reservoir of water three times the volume of all the oceans has been discovered deep beneath the Earth’s surface. The finding could help explain where Earth’s seas came from.

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.

The huge size of the reservoir throws new light on the origin of Earth’s water. 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.

“It’s good evidence the Earth’s water came from within,” says Steven Jacobsen of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. The hidden water could also act as a buffer for the oceans on the surface, explaining why they have stayed the same size for millions of years.

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[ABX]

Editor’s Note: Hollow Earth Theory, anyone? .....

A reservoir of water three times the volume of all the oceans has been discovered deep beneath the Earth’s surface. The finding could help explain where Earth’s seas came from.....

The water is hidden inside a blue rock called ringwoodite ......
(continue reading at New Scientist)
- See more at: http://www.thedailysheeple.com/massive-ocean-discovered-deep-beneath-earths-surface-towards-the-core_032015#sthash.oTaRGpmc.dpuf

Love how the 'editor's note' takes something completely mundane and tries to make it a big pseudoscience conspiracy conjuring a hollow earth.  Albeit, New Scientist doesn't help by calling it an 'ocean' to give people a visual of something like surface oceans.

If you dig a bit into the New Scientist article, you'll understand it isn't an 'ocean' but water trapped in minerals (ringwoodite), making basically a big muddy layer, not an ocean. No 'hollow earth' conspiracy.

[Oceander]

The huge size of the reservoir throws new light on the origin of Earth’s water. 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.

It does nothing of the sort.  The "new discovery" merely addresses what the what might have been doing once it got here; it says nothing whatsoever about how the water got here in the first place.

[rangerrebew]

If you dig a bit into the New Scientist article, you'll understand it isn't an 'ocean' but water trapped in minerals (ringwoodite), making basically a big muddy layer, not an ocean. No 'hollow earth' conspiracy.

I'll bet it was caused by global goring.