Water? In MY upper mantle?

[iancampbell]

Wasn't the finding that the water was chemically bound or at least mixed into ringwoodite, or did I misunderstand the finding? If it's bound into minerals, that's not a pumpable water supply but rather an ore that needs mining.

The way I read it, it sounds as if the water is physically trapped inside microvoids rather than being chemically bound.

Incidentally, it took less than 2 days before Bible-literalist crazies started using this new (and speculative) finding as justification for the literal truth of the Bible's Flood myth. "The fountains of the great deep were broken up" or something like that.

A massive release of subsurface water is the theme of a Stephen Baxter novel, too.