Oceano Mantélico

Há já algum tempo que uma geonotícia não me causava tão grande estupefacção.

"A seismologist at Washington University in St. Louis has made the first 3-D model of seismic wave damping — diminishing — deep in the Earth's mantle and has revealed the existence of an underground water reservoir at least the volume of the Arctic Ocean. It is the first evidence for water existing in the Earth's deep mantle."

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Imagem: Washington University in St. Louis