Gaza _ Agencies
A new study using seismic measuring devices in the Mariana Trench found that certain areas of the Earth were pulling large amounts of water into their subsoil as a result of tectonic activity.
According to the new accounts, the volume of this water amounts to 3 billion TG per million years, with the equivalent of one TG billion kilograms.
In the new study published in Nature magazine, the researchers used data collected by 19 seismic devices, across the Mariana Trench, and analyzed data from 7 seismic instruments on the islands.
This allowed the discovery of a more detailed picture of how the Pacific plates bend in the trench, revealing a new look at how rocks keep water deep beneath the surface.
"The study shows that areas of drift are moving more water into the subsoil, many miles from the surface, than previously thought, and the results highlight the important role of these areas in the cycle," said Candace Major, program director at the Department of Oceanography at the National Science Foundation. Water on our planet ".
According to the research team, the harsh conditions of pressure and temperature make the water confined to the rock, while the plates move to the crust and upper cover along the fault lines.
Previously, researchers did not have a clear picture of the amount of water, which reaches the depths.
Researchers say that the new method is much more accurate, with the seismic imagery showing the aquatic rock area in the Mariana Trench stretching approximately 20 miles below the sea floor.
The study estimates that water in the Mariana Trench is drifting underground, four times more than previously thought.
But what exactly happens to the water after its drift into the trench, is still unclear, and most of the amount returned to the atmosphere is believed to be water vapor caused by distant volcanic eruptions.
