The Far East (Religion)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Saturday, September 18, 2010, 22:49 (5180 days ago) @ Balance_Maintained

For the info direct from the horses mouth, as it were, I looked up the research paper instead of relying on the news article. &#13;&#10;> &#13;&#10;> Extract p.1 of the introduction:&#13;&#10;> &#13;&#10;> The lower mantle accounts for 62% of Earth&apos;s volume,&#13;&#10;> so even if lower mantle minerals have low H2O solubility&#13;&#10;> (< 0.1 wt%), the lower mantle may contain more water than&#13;&#10;> the Earth&apos;s oceans. How much water the lower mantle can&#13;&#10;> hold is a subject of some debate, and considerable discussion&#13;&#10;> in this volume. Estimates for the water solubility in silicate&#13;&#10;> perovskite range from a few ppm [Bolfan-Casanova et al.,&#13;&#10;> 2003] up to 0.2...0.4 wt% (i.e., 2000...4000 ppm H2O by&#13;&#10;> weight) [Litasov et al., 2003; Murakami et al., 2002]. The&#13;&#10;> water solubility for magnesiow&#195;&#188;stite (~16% of the lower&#13;&#10;> mantle) is more uncertain, with measurements from zero&#13;&#10;> [Bolfan-Casanova et al., 2002] to 0.2 wt% H2O [Murakami&#13;&#10;> et al., 2002]. For lower mantle solubilities of 0.05 to 0.2&#13;&#10;> wt%, the lower mantle may hold 1 to 5 times the water in&#13;&#10;> the Earth&apos;s oceans.&#13;&#10;> &#13;&#10;> &#13;&#10;> The article is a good read at any rate, and might be interesting to branch out into another world of science other than biology for a bit.&#13;&#10;> &#13;&#10;David&apos;s more the biologist here as the retired Doctor. I&apos;m the young computer science whippersnapper. -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mantle_%28geology%29-I&apos;ve now seen volume estimates between 49 and 80% for the Earth&apos;s mantle. Not that Wikipedia should ever be seen as an ultimate source... -&#13;&#10;> Hope you enjoy.

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