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Mar 15 2014 11:14pm
http://news.yahoo.com/rare-diamond-reveals-earths-interior-wet-181429521.html

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A battered diamond that survived a trip from "hell" confirms a long-held theory: Earth's mantle holds an ocean's worth of water.

"It's actually the confirmation that there is a very, very large amount of water that's trapped in a really distinct layer in the deep Earth," said Graham Pearson, lead study author and a geochemist at the University of Alberta in Canada. The findings were published today (March 12) in the journal Nature.

The worthless-looking diamond encloses a tiny piece of an olivine mineral called ringwoodite, and it's the first time the mineral has been found on Earth's surface in anything other than meteorites or laboratories. Ringwoodite only forms under extreme pressure, such as the crushing load about 320 miles (515 kilometers) deep in the mantle.
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Mar 16 2014 05:28pm
much wow
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Mar 16 2014 08:03pm
Christians are going to love this.
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Mar 16 2014 09:04pm
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Christians are going to love this.


what does that have to do with anything?
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Mar 17 2014 07:28am
Quote (ReturnFormer @ Mar 16 2014 08:04pm)
what does that have to do with anything?


oh i'm sure you will see this news story on sites like "answers in genesis" and some weird claims about the flood (Noah's flood).
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Mar 17 2014 12:21pm
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oh i'm sure you will see this news story on sites like "answers in genesis" and some weird claims about the flood (Noah's flood).


My first thoughts. " that's where all the eater went after the flood " was my first thought. Pretty nest though. Thoughts on how this will help with earthquakes ?? Or volcanos ??
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My first thoughts. " that's where all the eater went after the flood " was my first thought. Pretty nest though. Thoughts on how this will help with earthquakes ?? Or volcanos ??


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Mar 17 2014 07:43pm
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Christians are going to love this.



How this has any relevance to Christianity or creation is mind boggling.

This post was edited by HighschoolTurd on Mar 17 2014 07:43pm
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How this has any relevance to Christianity or creation is mind boggling.


really..
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Mar 22 2014 12:25am
not really new news.. stephen baxter, a hard science fiction author, has a series of novels playing off this information.
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