Has anyone heard of the new underground ocean under asia?
Please tell me more!
2007-05-09 13:49:23 · 6 answers · asked by ck_pinna 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
A giant blob of water the size of the Arctic Ocean has been discovered hundreds of miles beneath eastern Asia.
Researchers found the underground "ocean" while scanning seismic waves as they passed through Earth's interior.
Nobody will be exploring this sea by submarine. The water is locked in moisture-containing rocks 400 to 800 miles (700 to 1,400 kilometers) beneath the surface.
It isn't an ocean. [The water] is a very low percentage [of the rock], probably less than 0.1 percent.
Given the region's size, however, that's enough to add up to a vast amount of water.
2007-05-09 13:55:49 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
There's about 120 cubic km. of fresh water under the Sahara; it fell as rain during the last ice age, when the Sahara had a temperate climate. The Libyans are tapping it and piping it to the Mediterranean coast, where most of them live. Then there's Lake Vostok, about the size of Lake Ontario, 3km. underneath the Antarctic ice cap. If Samantha is correct, that water deposit underneath Asia must be very hot; at that depth the temperature is hundreds of degrees, but the pressure is very high, so it may still be liquid.
2007-05-09 20:59:56 · answer #2 · answered by zee_prime 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
....? It wouldn't be an underground ocean, but an underground water table.
2007-05-09 20:57:15 · answer #3 · answered by nintendogamer91 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A VERY misleading advertisement. But then, so MANY of them ARE!
2014-06-14 22:11:52 · answer #4 · answered by Skeez 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, it's a bunch of crap. Who dreams this garbage up ?
2007-05-09 20:54:08 · answer #5 · answered by Gene 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
http://www.livescience.com/environment/070228_beijing_anomoly.html
2007-05-09 20:56:58 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋