The Secret of Earth's Mantle- Myths and reality

Author: Tsetsilia Donadze
Keywords: Ringwoodite, Mantle, Diamond, Mantle Ocean
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Scientists scanning the deep interior of Earth have found evidence of a vast water reservoir beneath eastern Asia that is at least the volume of the Arctic Ocean.The discovery marks the first time such a large body of water has found in the planet's deep mantle. The finding, made by Michael Wysession, a seismologist at Washington University in St. Louis, and his former graduate student Jesse Lawrence, now at the University of California, San Diego, will be detailed in a forthcoming monograph to be published by the American Geophysical Union.