Science Alert March 9, 2018
An international team of researchers (USA – University of Nevada, University of Chicago, Caltech, University of Hawaii, China) found inclusions of the high-pressure form of water called ice-VII in diamonds sourced from between 410 and 660 km depth, the part of the mantle known as the transition zone. The discovery requires recalculation of the total amount of water our planet happens to hold and changes how we model everything from the way heat moves through the crust to models predicting the frequency of earthquakes… read more. TECHNICAL ARTICLE
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