Below the surface of our planet - at a depth of several hundred kilometers - there seem to be oceans.
The story of the Flood is biblical. And it seems to be mythical. However, many scientists believe that he was in fact. And not alone. They say that there are numerous traces of flooding on the continents. And lakes with salt sea water, scattered over land and thousands of kilometers from the coastline, are generally the remnants of floods.
But where did the water come from on Earth for such a catastrophic and global flooding? Such that old Noah moored on his ark to the top of Mount Ararat?
There are plenty of hypotheses. An asteroid or comet could fall into the ocean, which caused a colossal tsunami. Or the ice has melted from global warming and everything is flooded. Or, on the contrary, it got colder - the ice blocked the rivers, displaced the water remaining in the oceans, the level of which rose catastrophically. And some even argue that the axis of the planet shifted, and from this a water shaft several kilometers high passed over the land. However, until recently, there was no serious scientific evidence to rely on in assumptions.
Now they have been received - the results of a sensational study have been published in the journal Nature. Thanks to them, a hypothesis that would have seemed completely crazy before becomes real. The hypothesis that the water for the Flood came from the bowels of the Earth. Nowadays it is really not a fantasy any more - colossal reservoirs have been discovered inside our planet. There is so much water in them that it would be enough to fill ten such oceans as the Pacific.
Diamond - keeper
The secrets of the Flood were hidden inside the diamond. Like a needle with the death of Koshchei the Immortal in an egg. The diamond is small - less than one tenth of a gram. Found in Brazil. It is notable for the fact that it was formed at great depths - more than 500 kilometers. Was brought to the surface. But the main thing: the diamond contains an amazing inclusion inside it - a tiny crystal of the ringwoodite mineral. It is hermetically "sealed", and therefore is in the state in which it was in the depths. And this provides a rare opportunity: having studied the inclusion, find out the characteristics of the environment around it.
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An analysis led by geochemist Graham Pearson of the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, showed that the ringwoodite crystal contains about 1.5 percent water. And it was formed surrounded by water.
According to the existing concept, ringwoodite is the main component of the so-called transitional zone of the Earth - the bowels located at depths of several hundred kilometers. According to preliminary estimates, these very one and a half percent and "pour out" about ten Pacific oceans.
Scientists believe that there are giant reservoirs of water at a depth of several hundred kilometers.
Not the only proof
Several years ago, American researchers led by Michael Wysession, a professor of seismology at the University of Washington (St. Louis), talked about underground oceans. We found them by studying seismograms - records of characteristics of earthquakes.
Comparing data collected over many years in different regions of our planet, scientists have traced how the waves from the blows of the elements spread in the earth's crust and mantle.
The analysis of about 600 thousand seismograms shocked. It turned out that at least in two places - under the eastern part of the continent of Eurasia and under North America, there are huge reservoirs of water.
- This is evidenced by the pattern of attenuation of longitudinal seismic waves, - explained the professor, - it is typical for water.
Underground oceans that may be located in the bowels, indicated in red. They were revealed due to anomalies in the passage of seismic waves.
And even earlier, British scientists from the University of Manchester discovered sea water under the Earth's surface. Recognized its traces in carbon dioxide escaping from a depth of about 1,500 kilometers. They were not believed. But it looks like now it will have to.
The earth broke
It is not known exactly how the water got inside the Earth - it is possible that it was formed together with the planet. That is, she was always there. Or it merged from a surface on which there was much more water than it is now. Maybe the whole planet was one big ocean. As Europa is a satellite of Jupiter.
There is a version according to which deep water periodically comes to the surface. And then it again merges into the depths. Scientifically speaking, the volume of the earth's hydrosphere is changing. Most likely, from some movements in the crust and mantle of the planet.
By the way, at the bottom of the ocean there are strange holes, from which water with a temperature of 400 degrees gushes with a spring. They are called "black smokers".
In antediluvian times, underground reservoirs were thoroughly burst. And a catastrophic eruption of hot salt water with steam began, as if from a bursting boiler. The level of the world's oceans rose, and from above from the condensed steam, a downpour also poured - for 40 days and 40 nights. So it turned out to be the Flood. And then the water was sucked back.
Groundwater can rise to the surface
This means, at least in theory, that such a catastrophic phenomenon could be repeated. And so that even Ararat will not be seen. Vaisheshin frightens that below the oceans he discovered - in those areas of the earth's mantle that have not yet been explored, there is also water. Lots of water. Its volume, according to the professor, may be five times the capacity of all outer oceans. Here the estimates of Vayseshin and Pearson roughly coincide.