According to new estimates, this water is 11 million km cubic. That’s more than all the rivers, lakes and marshes together. This water is dispersed deep underground.
The oldest sample, found two and a half kilometers below the surface in Canada, have from one billion to more than two billion years. – That’s how old this water is probably the biggest surprise. We expected that the water will flow there from the surface, and then come back. And she was so long – the BBC says one of the authors of the study, Professor Chris Ballantine from the University of Oxford.
Furthermore, these underground deposits react with rocks, thereby forming hydrogen. This increases the probability of the existence of life deep underground – the authors suggest.
(IAR)
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