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The growning hypothesis of the origin of the water on earth is from comet collisions. Meteors are hard body rock and metal space materials. Comets are soft body accumulations of space dust and ice. Imagine a space rock in a very long ellipical orbit with the sun for millions of years. Comet Haley takes 75 years to complete an orbit. Ok, when it's far away outside the solar system it's very cold. While traveling through millions of miles of space the comet will collect free floating water molecules becoming a giant ice ball larger than any glacier on earth. The comet is travelling at an incredible rate, 17K miles per hour. Anything it collides with will stick to the ball of ice like rice would stick to clay when you roll the clay across the table. The ice ball gets larger and larger over eons of time. Comets are literal space snow balls. Then by chance the comet collides with a planet like earth depositing it's water.
Water is also produced through combustion of Hydrogen in the presence of Oxygen. Natural events on earth may also produce water, but the sea is so large it's unlikely that volume of water was created by an accumulation of terrestrial processes such as forest fires or volcanism.
Our sun is out-gasing water. Earth may be in an ideal position to collect and retain that water.
So the water on earth is likely from a combination of things. Once the water gets here the hydrogen and oxygen are recycled throughout the planets geologic processes and retained due to the favorable temperature conditions.
Mars once had a sea which was lost. The atmosphere of Mars could not retain the water.

2007-07-22 04:21:12 · answer #1 · answered by Crushed Ice 2 · 0 0

Billions of years ago when the Earth was forming it was very, very HOT. All water vapor would have been in the form of a gas until the Earth cooled off enough for liquid water to form. It probably would have formed first near wherever the poles were at the time, because they would have been the coolest. Life also probably formed there first because it would have been the first place cool enough to allow biochemical reactions of life to occur.

2007-07-22 03:46:32 · answer #2 · answered by Paul Hxyz 7 · 0 0

serium? thats only in the sense of current day weather. Do you know how the earth was made?

2007-07-22 03:45:48 · answer #3 · answered by placid_acid 2 · 0 0

a chemical reaction with 2 parts hydrogen to one part oxygen over millions of years and many many millions of years ago....

2007-07-22 03:44:53 · answer #4 · answered by McCanns are guilty 7 · 0 0

Glaciers.

2007-07-22 03:44:50 · answer #5 · answered by $Sun King$ 7 · 0 1

this is a question, with answer that would only produce more questions, until your ultimate answer is either the Big Bang or God

2007-07-22 03:48:39 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

melting ice caps

2007-07-22 03:44:24 · answer #7 · answered by minty359 6 · 0 1

god drinking beer. beer makes you pee like nothing else.

2007-07-22 03:44:48 · answer #8 · answered by zoeksalamander 4 · 1 0

when earth began.

2007-07-22 03:44:38 · answer #9 · answered by iz 2 · 1 0

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