Huge 'ocean' discovered in Earth's interior

[kidagakash]

Maybe microbial?

Ringwoodite. It holds oxygen and hydrogen in solid form I think. soaks it up like a sponge.

[aquatus1]

wow ok, so how much water can exists on earth then? So far we have;

1) evaporated water in the sky, currently a huge reservoir in continuous expansion and always in a cycle.

2) 71 percent of earths surface is covered by waters.

No need to guess. There are people who actually do this for a living.

Spheres representing all of Earth's water, Earth's liquid fresh water, and water in lakes and rivers

The largest sphere represents all of Earth's water, and its diameter is about 860 miles (the distance from Salt Lake City, Utah, to Topeka, Kansas). It would have a volume of about 332,500,000 cubic miles (mi³) (1,386,000,000 cubic kilometers (km³)). The sphere includes all the water in the oceans, ice caps, lakes, and rivers, as well as groundwater, atmospheric water, and even the water in you, your dog, and your tomato plant.

3) ground water or aquifers . Estimated to be twice as much as the total amount of liquid water on the surface.

4) phreatic zone. More water mixed with soil part liquid part solid.

Do you understand that these are considered one and the same? Aquifers are not just huge chambers filled with liquid water (they can be, but are not required to be). Aquifers are commonly simply more porous areas within the phreanic zone, where accessing the water is much easier. Aquifers are part of the groundwater system.

5) Oil...that is also liquid and in huge quantities.

Why is this on the list?

6) now this recent discovery unveiling more water mixed with crystals and molecules nearest the Earth's center.

No...that's...no...

Look, you seem pretty excited about this for some reason, and that's great, but you really need to take a breath, read the article, and brush up a little on the subject. You don't have to take a class on it or anything, but at least go through a few wiki articles or something.

And no, the transition layer (the clue is in the name) is nowhere near the Earth's center. In the same way your sense of proportion was way out of wack with the idea of the ringwoodite being in the liquid water region of the Earth (a difference between a max depth of 3-5 km of depth and 300-700 km of depth), now you are talking about being "nearest to the Earth's center" regarding 300-700 km vs. about 6000 km.

I mean, we could already say that our planet is clearly a drop of water or liquids in space.....

Again, your sense of proportion is really out of place. The Earth is really, really big. The diagram above should give you a better idea of scale, but consider that even if you triple the amount of water, it still doesn't even come close to the dry mass of the planet.

scientists should really look up at how earth formed.It seems to me it was water attracting space dust and solid matter, rather than vicerversa.

Perhaps you should read up a bit on the subject yourself. It was not physically possible for water to have been the main attractor for any planet.

[qxcontinuum]

I think i understand what you are saying, if talking in cubic miles. Although over71 % of earth's surface is covered by waters, in cubic miles comparing to the total of dry land including earths solid substrates the percentage reported of water quantity will be as showing in the pic above..correct?

However since there have been recent discoveries made like this one about huge quantities of water underground plus others that we might not know, that bubble of water seems to be growing more isnt'it?

Edited June 18, 2014 by qxcontinuum

[aquatus1]

I think i understand what you are saying, if talking in cubic miles. Although over71 % of earth's surface is covered by waters, in cubic miles comparing to the total of dry land including earths solid substrates the percentage reported of water quantity will be as showing in the pic above..correct?

Correct. All of the water on the planet put together, even the stuff we just now discovered mentioned in the article, would be barely a sheen on the planet if distributed uniformly over the surface.

That said, we have to keep in mind that a full half of our theoretical sheen above is actually trapped within the molecular structure of ringwoodite, and cannot be physically extracted. The ringwoodite would have to be destroyed at the molecular level for it to release the water it contains. If a chunk of this mineral was sitting in front of you, you would not be able to tell at a glance that it is any different than any other rock, and you won't be able to squeeze any water out of it either.

However since there have been recent discoveries made like this one about huge quantities of water underground plus others that we might not know, that bubble of water seems to be growing more isnt'it?

I'm not aware of any recent discoveries about huge quantities of water underground, not even liquid water, other than this one.

[Myles]

Boring-ass movie, lol.

Maybe, but we did get to see Jeanne Tripplehorn's rear end.

[Lex540]

.......................................Not Possible!!!!

[aquatus1]

Go on.

[Scandal]

I would love to fish that sea.

[Mr.United_Nations]

Also this will help finding out water or if there was water on Planets.

[Rei4ever]

All things happen in Reality...