Scientists Have Uncovered a Vast Ocean Stretching 700 Kilometers Below The Earth's surface

Wow,  imagine there's a giant underground ocean! Scientists just found a massive reservoir of water way down below the Earth's surface,  and it's apparently three times bigger than all the oceans we already know about! According to reports, researchers from Northwestern University in Evanston,  Illinois,  made this discovery.  Scientists believe there's a water source deep underground,  estimated to be roughly 700 kilometers beneath our feet.

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The results were thoroughly explained in a scientific paper from 2014 called 'Dehydration melting at the top of the lower mantle'. This paper also pointed out some unique features of ringwoodite.

Scientists just stumbled on a major clue in the mystery of where Earth's water came from! They found a massive ocean hidden deep beneath the Earth's surface,  inside a special blue rock called ringwoodite. This hidden ocean is makes you wonder,  could this be where Earth's water originated?

At the time, Steve Jacobsen, a geophysicist who played a crucial role in the discovery, had mentioned, "The ringwoodite is like a sponge,  soaking up water,  there is something very special about the crystal structure of ringwoodite that allows it to attract hydrogen and trap water".

The way scientists understand Earth's water cycle is being reconsidered due to the discovery of this enormous hidden water reservoir. It challenges previous ideas that comet impacts were the main source of water on Earth. Instead,  it suggests that water might have slowly leaked out from the planet's core over time.

This amazing discovery came about through the work of Steven Jacobsen,  a researcher at Northwestern University,  who firmly believes that,  "This constitutes significant evidence supporting the notion that Earth's water originated internally".

In order to find this concealed ocean beneath the surface,  scientists established a large network of 2000 seismographs across the United States. Scientists meticulously analyzed the seismic signatures of over 500 earthquakes. These waves travel through the Earth's deep layers,  like its core,  and slow down when they pass through wet rock. The decrease in speed indicated that there's a vast amount of water stored there.

Whoa! This discovery about water deep underground could totally shake up our ideas about Earth's water cycle. It seems there could be a giant hidden ocean way down in the rock layer,  soaking through the cracks like water through a sponge! Scientist Jacobsen thinks this hidden reservoir is super important. He says it helps trap a bunch of water underground,  otherwise all that water would be flooding the surface – we'd only see mountain peaks poking out!

Scientists are racing to gather more earthquake readings from all over the world to figure out how often mantle melts deep down in the Earth.