New Study Questions on How the Atmosphere and Oceans Formed
A popular theory is that the atmosphere and oceans formed by releasing water and gases from the Earth’s mantle through volcanic activity during the planet’s first 100 million years.
But lead researcher Dr Mark Kendrick from ANU said the new study provided evidence to question this theory.
“Our findings make alternative theories for the origin of the atmosphere and oceans equally plausible, such as icy comets or meteorites bringing water to the Earth,” said Dr Kendrick from the ANU Research School of Earth Sciences.
Dr. Mark Kendrick is shown with a sample of volcanic glass.
Credit: Stuart Hay, ANU
Seawater is introduced into the Earth’s interior when two tectonic plates converge and one plate is pushed underneath the other into the mantle.
The study has overturned the notion that seawater only makes it about 100km into the mantle before it is returned to the Earth’s surface through volcanic arcs, such as those forming the Pacific Ring of Fire that runs through the western America’s, Japan and Tonga.
The team analysed samples of volcanic glass from the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans that contained traces of seawater that had been deeply cycled throughout Earth’s interior.
“The combination of water and halogens found in the volcanic glasses enables us to preclude local seawater contamination and conclusively prove the water in the samples was derived from the mantle,” Dr Kendrick said.
Contacts and sources:
Will Wright
Citation: Seawater cycled throughout Earth’s mantle in partially serpentinized lithosphere http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2902
Source: http://www.ineffableisland.com/2017/03/new-study-questions-on-how-atmosphere.html
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