The great Obruchev foresaw, but did not fantasize in his "Plutonia" …
Moreover, this underground ocean is truly huge - it is 3 times larger than all other oceans of the Earth combined! It was found under the Earth's mantle, at a depth of about 600 km. It turns out that Obruchev was really right - "Plutonium" exists! After all, where there is an ocean, life is also present … Perhaps, in other, unknown to us, land inhabitants, forms.
The dimensions of the underground ocean are so huge that this water can fill three times all the oceans on Earth that we know.
The study's author, Graham Pearson, at the University of Alberta in Canada, said: "One of the reasons the Earth is a dynamic planet is the presence of water inside it."
After decades of theoretical discussion, scientists report that they have finally found the Great Ocean beneath the Earth's mantle.
This astonishing find suggests that water comes to the surface from the interior of the planet as part of a complex water cycle, displacing the dominant theory that water was brought to Earth by icy comets a million years ago. As you know, relatively recently, this theory was recognized as untenable - it could not stand the test of modern data.
Researchers now believe that water on the Earth's surface could have emerged from the bowels of the planet and controls geological activity on the surface. After extensive research, scientists said they had found a giant reservoir of water in the transition zone between the upper and lower layers of the mantle, in an area that lies somewhere between 400 and 660 km below the earth's surface.
As you know, water occupies most of the surface of our planet, which is paradoxically called the Earth. Although, in comparison with the earth's mass, the depth of the oceans is only a thin layer, similar to the peel of an onion, but … now it became clear that the presence of the precious liquid is not limited only to the surface visible to us.
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In fact, hundreds of kilometers underground, there are huge volumes of water that are fundamental to understanding the geological dynamics of the planet.
Moreover, it suggests that it has its own life, flora and fauna. But to find out what "Plutonium" really is, more detailed research is needed …
