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Posted: 9/30/2022 9:25:16 PM EDT
https://www.indiatoday.in/science/story/know-about-five-oceans-on-earth-the-sixth-has-just-been-discovered-2006670-2022-09-30

excerpt - "There are five oceans on Earth: the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic, and Southern Ocean. An international team of scientists has now found evidence of considerable quantities of water between the Earth’s upper and lower mantle.

The evidence was found during the analysis of a rare diamond that formed 660 kilometers below the Earth’s surface confirming the theory that ocean water accompanies subducting slabs and thus enters the transition zone. The new findings reveal that Earth's water cycle includes the Earth’s interior.

The study by the German-Italian-American research team has been published in the journal Nature, which states that the internal structure and dynamics of Earth have been shaped by the 660km boundary between the mantle transition zone and the lower mantle.

WHERE IS THE SIXTH OCEAN?
The evidence points to water in the transition zone (TZ), the boundary layer that separates the Earth’s upper mantle and the lower mantle. The boundary is located at a depth of 410 to 660 kilometers, where immense pressure of up to 23,000 bar causes the olive-green mineral olivine to alter its crystalline structure.

Olivine constitutes around 70 percent of the Earth’s upper mantle and is also called peridot. Researchers said that at the upper boundary of the transition zone, at a depth of about 410 kilometers, it is converted into denser wadsleyite; at 520 kilometers it then metamorphoses into even denser ringwoodite.

“These mineral transformations greatly hinder the movements of rock in the mantle. Subducting plates often have difficulty breaking through the entire transition zone. So, there is a whole graveyard of such plates in this zone underneath Europe,” explains Prof. Frank Brenker from the Institute for Geosciences at Goethe University."

(Note: the "Ocean" is hydrous rock. It's like a wet sponge.)
Link Posted: 9/30/2022 9:26:16 PM EDT
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They should make a movie out of this

Link Posted: 9/30/2022 9:27:01 PM EDT
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Thats where the crab people live
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I think they did....."Core"
Link Posted: 9/30/2022 9:29:12 PM EDT
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I've been trying to warn yall about the reptoids who live in caves and shit underground but yall just think I'm crazy
Link Posted: 9/30/2022 9:31:08 PM EDT
[#5]
It is where the alien ships go to fish.
Link Posted: 9/30/2022 9:31:19 PM EDT
[#6]
It's a once in a lifetime discovery.

Talking Heads - Once in a Lifetime (Official Video)
Link Posted: 9/30/2022 9:34:44 PM EDT
[#7]
Make sure you turn off the tap or all the Earth's water will magically disappear, even in New Yawk which is right next to a body of... Water!
Link Posted: 9/30/2022 9:35:49 PM EDT
[#8]
How will this impact the 35 mile diameter glob of fresh water?
Link Posted: 9/30/2022 9:37:15 PM EDT
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SIXTH ocean

SECOND wall

I believe!
Link Posted: 9/30/2022 9:37:59 PM EDT
[#10]
Great. Now california will figure out how to steal it
Link Posted: 9/30/2022 9:40:11 PM EDT
[#11]
In before Spain claims it.
Link Posted: 9/30/2022 9:42:35 PM EDT
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You never said they can swim.
Link Posted: 9/30/2022 9:51:09 PM EDT
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False.

They inhabit the halls of Congress, in both houses and both sides of the aisle.
Link Posted: 9/30/2022 9:52:38 PM EDT
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Could explain a lot


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[#16]
Edgar Rice Burroughs was a prophet.
Link Posted: 9/30/2022 9:59:44 PM EDT
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Looks like an ass just kicked her right square in the box.
Link Posted: 9/30/2022 10:00:15 PM EDT
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sleestaka?
Link Posted: 9/30/2022 10:03:31 PM EDT
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You never said they can swim.
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You never said they can swim.

Everyone knows iguanas can swim. I don't think I've ever seen a reptile that can't swim. There's one lizard that runs across water. They're well equipped for aquatic activities
Link Posted: 9/30/2022 10:06:56 PM EDT
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So we aren’t going to run out of water.
Link Posted: 9/30/2022 10:07:18 PM EDT
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Chuds
Link Posted: 9/30/2022 10:08:36 PM EDT
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The ocean is a desert with its life underground.
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I read a book about this when I was a kid
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User avatar checks out.
Link Posted: 9/30/2022 10:11:30 PM EDT
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This blows that other water/earth thread out of the water.
Link Posted: 9/30/2022 10:12:04 PM EDT
[#27]
Genesis 7:11  fountains of the great deep ?
Link Posted: 9/30/2022 10:14:26 PM EDT
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And a perfect disguise above.
Link Posted: 9/30/2022 10:15:55 PM EDT
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They found old man Kelsey's ocean?
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Beat me to it
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This is not news.  We have known for decades that subducted plates carry a LOT of water with them.  The water actually lowers the melting temperature of rock, which is one of the primary reasons that subduction zones are characterized by lots of volcanic activity (see: Ring of Fire.)
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And they have been slowly plotting their return to the surface and subsequent annihilation of the "Soft Skins".
Link Posted: 9/30/2022 10:20:40 PM EDT
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The Ocean of the Underworld - Journey To The Center Of The Earth (1959)
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Avatar checks out.

TC

ETA: Beat.
Link Posted: 9/30/2022 10:31:01 PM EDT
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I think that's where Godzillas club house is
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Was waiting to see if anyone would bring it up.  But yeah, it's a thing.
Link Posted: 9/30/2022 10:40:28 PM EDT
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It's just a bunch of wet rock.
Link Posted: 9/30/2022 10:43:50 PM EDT
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I believe there is one ocean…
Link Posted: 9/30/2022 11:01:47 PM EDT
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Peridot, huh. Interesting
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Peridot is (semi-precious) gem quality olivine.
Link Posted: 9/30/2022 11:04:44 PM EDT
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Shhhh! I'm on the phone with Michael Bay.....
Link Posted: 9/30/2022 11:05:08 PM EDT
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Neato
Link Posted: 9/30/2022 11:11:13 PM EDT
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When was the southen ocean invented?
Link Posted: 9/30/2022 11:11:26 PM EDT
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Can't be worse than Atlantic Rim
Link Posted: 9/30/2022 11:20:26 PM EDT
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What if it's not water but instead, oil?
Link Posted: 9/30/2022 11:43:10 PM EDT
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It might be an ocean in scale, probably a small ocean at that, but it's just the water that gets subducted with the crust, which we've known about for a long time. It's kind of cool that the pressure and temperature gradients result in liquid water at certain depths though.
Link Posted: 9/30/2022 11:51:37 PM EDT
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Jules Vern
Link Posted: 9/30/2022 11:57:16 PM EDT
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Southern ocean?...

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I didn't even know about the fifth one.
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