(June 13, 2014 at 11:02 am)Chuck Wrote: Most of the water in the earth is likely to be permenently sequested in the mantle and have never and would never come out. The question is how much of the water is in communication with the surface (ie the particular molecules are likely to reach the surface at least once during earth's life, certainly not all at once)
Exactly. I hated the use of 'ocean' in the title. As I read the article I immediately thought that if we squeezed all humans of their water content we could make a modest sized lake.