Water from 400AD in mystery ocean abyss

Queensland Times ^

[BenLurkin]

It's called the "shadow zone" and it lies around two kilometres below the surface in an ocean abyss where trapped water dates back to the fourth century. This ancient water, which is between 1000 and 2000 years old, dates back to when the ancient Germanic tribe the Goths instigated the end of the Western Roman Empire and the rise of Medieval Europe.

Lying in a 6000km by 2000km patch of the North Pacific Ocean between 1km and 2.5km below the surface, the shadow zone's reason for existence has remained a mystery until now.

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"Abyssal ocean overturning shaped by sea floor distribution" explains that the zone has barely any vertical movement because factors prevent it from rising. The zone lies between rising currents caused by the rough topography and geothermal heat sources below 2.5km and the shallower wind driven currents closer to the surface.

"When this isolated shadow zone traps millennia old ocean water it also traps nutrients and carbon which have a direct impact on the capacity of the ocean to modify climate over centennial timescales," said the paper's fellow author Dr Fabien Roquet of Stockholm University.

[Popman]

How do they determine the age of the water?

[sparklite2]

The article says the abyssal water lets things like carbon wash in but not back out.

[Arm_Bears]

So, is this Trump’s fault or not?

[buwaya]

Somewhere in there is Lovecrafts nightmare city of R’lyeh, and sleeping Cthulhu.

Lovecraft got the location wrong though. It seems its in the North Pacific, not the far South.

Also, why isnt this thing in climate models?

[School of Rational Thought]

How do they determine the age of the water?

It is dated on the sign of the tun.

[Robert DeLong]

From the article:

Carbon dating identified its age and location some time ago, but scientists struggled to understand why the stagnant zone lay where it did.

What they are really saying is that the water has not circulated since 400 A.D. and that it has been trapped in that abyss since that time.

[sparklite2]

Also, why isnt this thing in climate models?

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How do you know it isn’t, grasshopper?

[Cementjungle]

Also, why isnt this thing in climate models?

That'll require some more grants.

[Hot Tabasco]

When this isolated shadow zone traps millennia old ocean water it also traps nutrients and carbon which have a direct impact on the capacity of the ocean to modify climate over centennial timescales,"

Such water trapped in that zone over the alleged millenia would be stagnant and devoid of any life whatsoever........

That water ain't trapped, it's subject to typical underwater currents just as the rest of the ocean is..........

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

It had “Best Before June 429 A.D.” and “Future U.S. state Michigan 10 cents deposit” stamps on it.

[resistance]

12 year old scotch is pretty good. Just imagine how great 2000 year old water would be!

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

Don’t drink it! I pee in it every time I go swimming.

[Rushmore Rocks]

fyi

[ETL]

"It's called the "shadow zone" and it lies around two kilometres below the surface in an ocean abyss"

Now what is it that that reminds me of?

Oh, now I remember...

"...it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call the Twilight Zone."

"It's called the "shadow zone" and it lies around two kilometres below the surface in an ocean abyss"

Now what is it that that reminds me of?

Oh, now I remember...

"...it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call the Twilight Zone."

[Redcitizen]

we will serve no water before its time.

- Orson Welles.

[fidelis]

"Water from 400AD"

That should be AD 400. AD = anno domini = Year of Our Lord.

Thus: The Year of Our Lord, 400.

With BC (Before Christ) it's the opposite: 400 BC.

(And, yes I know that liberals like to use BCE and CE instead. Don't get me started on that)

[ETL]

Just imagine how great 2000 year old water would be!

Market it as 'cool' and 'trendy' and the dopey millennials would buy it right up at a premium price.

[ETL]

Most of the atoms in our bodies date back more than 13.5 billion years. Hydrogen predates the stars. It was created at or soon after the beginning of the universe.

H₂O