(September 28, 2015 at 6:51 pm)ChadWooters Wrote:(September 28, 2015 at 4:15 pm)TheRocketSurgeon Wrote: When confronted with the problems of the amount of rainfall it would take to cause the Great Flood...Actually, the flood was not caused by rainwater; but rather, by the opening of the fountains of the deep.
Fountains of the Deep
Sigh. Learn to read the fine print, Chad.
Because that's not what ringwoodite is. It's water trapped in mineral deposits, and
The journal Science described it thusly:
Quote:"The transition zone can hold a lot of water, and could potentially have the same amount of H2O as all the world's oceans."(Emphasis mine.)
Still not enough to cover the earth's mountains, I'm afraid, even if it all was somehow magically released and bubbled to the surface without destroying everything, before magically turning back into hydroxide ions bound to the mineral deep below the entire crust. It is related to tectonic plate shifting, and is only released where the plates come to the surface and/or are subsumed... part of why there's so much water in lava.
From the article below:
Quote:"Ringwoodite is a rare type of mineral that forms from olivine under very high pressures and temperatures, such as those present in the mantle's transition zone. Laboratory studies have shown that the mineral can contain water, which isn't present as liquid, ice or vapor; instead, it is trapped in the ringwoodite's molecular structure as hydroxide ions (bonded oxygen and hydrogen atoms)."(Emphasis mine.)
http://news.discovery.com/earth/oceans/o...140612.htm
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