Study Hints That Ancient Earth Made Its Own Water--Geologically

In a finding that meshes well with recent discoveries from the Rosetta mission, Ohio State University researchers have discovered a geochemical pathway by which Earth makes it own water through plate tectonics. This finding extends the planet's water cycle to billions of years--and suggests that enough water is buried in the deep earth right now to fill the Pacific Ocean.

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