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The Secret Ocean Under the Earth

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A surprising find 400 miles beneath our feet

The sum of all the water reserves of Earth’s surface totals somewhere in the neighborho­od of 330 million cubic miles. The oceans cover approximat­ely 71% of Earth’s surface. Water as we know it exists in three states in our atmosphere: solid like ice, liquid, or gaseous like vapor. But in the interior of the planet it occurs in yet another form…

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