Amazing stuff! Water, the substance of life! We do not even know how much water exists on earth, but we pretend we can forecast world climate for the next 100 years!
"... Using Crust 1.0, a global database of all rocks making up the uppermost layers of the Earth’s crust, the researchers estimated nearly 44 million cubic kilometres of water is found two to 10 kilometres underground. In comparison, the amount of water held in ice sheets in Antarctica is estimated at 27 million cubic kilometres. ...
“Deep groundwater systems are still a scientific frontier – we know little about the distribution, quality, and age of water beyond two kilometres, because our windows into the subsurface, such as deep wells, boreholes, mines, are few and far between ... Yet, we know from the few locations that have been explored, these deep groundwater systems support microbial life ..."
“Deep groundwater systems are still a scientific frontier – we know little about the distribution, quality, and age of water beyond two kilometres, because our windows into the subsurface, such as deep wells, boreholes, mines, are few and far between ... Yet, we know from the few locations that have been explored, these deep groundwater systems support microbial life ..."
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