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water  ·  3591 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Massive water source discovered in the Earth's mantle. Could explain Earth's Oceans.

    Earth's mantle is a silicate rocky shell about 2,900 kilometres (1,800 mi) thick[1] that constitutes about 84% of Earth's volume.
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The water must be really strange down there, it probably has it's own convection, pockets of intense heat and pressure... I wonder if there is life down there.





Mindwolf  ·  3591 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It's not really a body of water. It's like wet rock or firm mud. Kind of like oil in oil share or tar sands. We've found life everywhere else (literally) it would not surprise me if we did.

GenghisKhan  ·  3591 days ago  ·  link  ·  

If I'm correct, most aquifers (near the surface, anyway) are water-rich pumice or other porous rock.