RE: Fish must be very holy
March 24, 2015 at 9:13 am
(This post was last modified: March 24, 2015 at 9:21 am by Smaug.)
Quote:massive springs gushed out water for days...
This is such a topic that one has to bring up at least some numbers. Let's consider that Earth is spherical for the sake of simplicity. Then:
Earth's radius = 6371 km
Earth's volume ~ 1,083 * 10^12 km^3
Let's say that the water levels rose by approximately 5 miles (~ 8 kilometers). Than the volume of the water sphere layer added to the Earth's mass is 3 * 10^9 km^3. Now let's calculate it's total mass. It is approximately 3*10^18 tonnes. Which is about as twice as much as total mass of all Earth's hydrosphere.