Scientists: The amount of water in the ground exceeds the bodies of water

<p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr">ArabiaWeather.com - A group of scientists said that it appears that <strong>the Earth&#39;s interior</strong> contains huge amounts of <strong>water,</strong> stored by a rocky layer of <strong>the Earth&#39;s crust mantle</strong> at depths ranging from 410 to 660 kilometers in the Earth&#39;s interior!</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span style="line-height:1.6em">This water is associated with the molecular structure of two minerals in the mantle rock layer, which is characterized by its unique ability to retain water like a sponge, and these two minerals are called &quot;ringodeite&quot; and &quot;wadslite&quot;.</span></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span style="line-height:1.6em">Steve Jacobson, professor of geophysics at Northwestern University, believes that this discovery may change our ideas about <strong>the composition of the Earth</strong> !</span> <span style="line-height:1.6em">He said, &quot;These quantities of water may be either equal to or more than the amount of water combined in the oceans.&quot;</span></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span style="line-height:1.6em">He added, &quot;What we are talking about is no longer liquid water at such great depths. The weight of hundreds of kilometers of rock and the temperature rise of more than a thousand degrees Celsius work to analyze water into its basic components. It is water that cannot be extracted and is not a source of water anyway.&quot;</span></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span style="line-height:1.6em">He continued, &quot;The water descended into the mantle layer of the earth&#39;s crust, associated with minerals, during the formation of the earth&#39;s tectonic plates, which is a slow and complex process that included the movement of huge rock slabs, which contributed to the formation of the earth&#39;s surface.&quot;</span></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span style="line-height:1.6em">When the minerals associated with these waters reached certain depths, they dissolved through what is called &quot;drying out and water separation&quot;, which contributed to the formation of the magma layer.</span></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span style="line-height:1.6em">In a study published in the journal Science, the researchers presented evidence that this also occurs at depths in the mantle and in the &quot;transition zone&quot; between the upper and lower layers of the mantle.</span></p>