Scientists claim discovery of the largest ocean 700 km below the earth surface

Washington (USA) – As per a latest development, a reservoir of water deep below earth’s surface that is three times the size of earth’s oceans has been discovered by the scientists. If reports are to go by, it was discovered from the Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, and that this subterranean water cache lies approximately 700 km beneath us. Scientists discovered this ocean while researching how did water came on the earth.

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1. The scientific endeavour behind this revelation was led by Steven Jacobsen, a researcher at Northwestern University, who asserts, “This constitutes significant evidence supporting the notion that earth’s water originated internally.” Unveiling this underground ocean involved deploying an extensive network of 2,000 seismographs across the United States, scrutinising seismic waves emitted by over 500 earthquakes. These waves, traversing through the earth’s inner layers including its core, experience deceleration when passing through damp rock, indicating the presence of this extensive water reservoir. This discovery potentially reshapes our understanding of the earth’s water cycle, proposing that water may exist within the mantle, migrating amid rock grains. Jacobsen stresses the reservoir’s significance, highlighting its role in maintaining water beneath the earth’s surface, without which water would predominantly reside on the planet’s surface, rendering only mountain peaks visible.

2. A number of reports have claimed that water was created by the impact of a comet after it hit the earth.