At https://dailygalaxy.com/2025/06/jules-verne-was-right-scientists-discover/ … a hidden world beneath our feet. Untapped resources of water locked deerp inside Earth’s mantle. It seems scientists are discovering that the mainstream, and long standing idea on how Earth is made up, are coming apart at the seams. In 2009 geologists in Brazil found a huge water reservoir at a depth of 410 to 660 kilometres. It came about via ‘ringwoodite‘, a mineral that contains water trapped in the form of hydroxil ions. The finding was not anticipated. The mineral, kinown from meteorites, had never been observed on Earth – until that moment. As more studies were carried, including the discovery of ringwoodite in Botswana, it became clear the Mantle may contain a lot of potential water – but not in a liquid format. It is estimated, now, there is as much water in the mantle as there is in all the oceans on the surface. It excists within ringwoodite – which exists under extrme pressure. Geologists, or some of them, began to wonder if Earth’s water cycle has its origins in ringwoodite – rather than arriving on Earth via meteor bombardment over millions of years.
This raises further questions. What role does water play in Plate Tectonics? We might also note the water inside the Earth could be used in support the alternative idea of an expanding earth – brought to the surface as a liquid. What might cause that – what could activate such a geological process?
There is also another discovery that has caused a stir in geological circles. A long submerghed island in the South Atlantic. It is known as the Rio Grande Rise and it is packed with rare earth minerals in a region that belongs to nobody – mid ocean. It came into being way back, when the southern Atlantic ocean opened up. What then was its relationship to the