[Theoria]

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Scientists Discover Massive Freshwater Reserves Underneath The Ocean Floor[FR]

[Rameumptom]

great article...though the Bible beat the scientists to the punch with Noah.

Genesis 7:11 - “the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened”

Gensis 8:2 - “The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped”

[colorado tanker]

ping

[Raycpa]

The question against a world wide flood is “where did all the water come from and where did it go?”:

“the Japan subduction zone alone could transport the equivalent of up to three and a half times the water of all the Earth’s oceans to its mantle.”

[Mrs. Don-o]

I'm reminded of the report of the Great Flood in Genesis 7:11 that "the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of heaven", and the waters rose so high that All the mountains everywhere were covered; the waters rose 15 cubits above the mountains."(v. 19-20)

Many have puzzled over that, since the volume of water in the oceans wouldn't seem to be sufficient to cover earth's present mountain ranges. But if they volume of water within earth and under the oceans is actually 3 or 4 times greater than the water on the surface, and if the mountains originally were not so high, but were pushed higher by tectonic forces---

I don't know.

[Raycpa]

Aside from the biblical references, the surprising thing about this study is its failure to tie this to global warming. I am used to every study being tied to global warming in some fashion.

[JimSEA]

A period of global glaciation (ice ball earth) some 650 + mya preceded the Cambrian explosion of multicellular life. That was a lot of water, it had to go somewhere. However, mineral formation and volcanic activity over subduction zones and ridges take up a lot of water. For instance, the Great African Rift, has, in addition to numerous active volcanos, an immense magma chamber with 500 cubic miles of magma. Elsewhere, we are just beginning to discover things about tectonic plate push and pull and what immediately underlies the crust.

[familyop]

Hot salt water has been extracted from beneath mountain ranges that are more or less between the trench that winds through the middle of each of the oceans.

[Bedford Forrest]

Let’s see now - huge volumes of salt water being delivered to the earth’s mantle on tectonic conveyor belts - thus, H2O in contact with carbonaceous rock in extreme pressure and temperature conditions - endless inorganic methane, anyone? Nah, that’s loony stuff, that would mean that natural gas and crude oil were inexhaustable - and the Goron has already told us we’re running out of oil. Yawn

[justa-hairyape]

So net water is being transported deep into the lower mantle sections over time.

How is it being replaced ?

Or perhaps more appropriately, when ?

[wonkowasright]

Are we going back to a hollow earth again ?

[central_va]

The big blue ball is the amount of ocean water compared to the earth, the little one is the amount of fresh water.

[Rodamala]

Same as it ever was...