Life on earth would have been impossible without water which makes it one of the most important things of our planet. Even our planet is called “Blue planet” because of the huge resources of water.
[junkie-alert style=”green”] Now geologists have published a new study revealing that vast ocean is discovered within earth’s mantle. The large reservoir of water is at least 600 to 1,000 km below the earth surface. [/junkie-alert]
But due to extreme pressure the water is not present in the form with which we are familiar rather the water is preserved in rocks in the form of hydroxyl radical (OH) because of extreme temperature and pressure.
The study was carried out by geophysicists Steve Jacobsen from Northwestern University. The study revealed that huge water is reserved in mantle layer of earth. The earth is composed of three layers the crust, mantle and core.