FW: [In Depth] How buried water makes diamonds and oil

Take a quick look, oil comes from water?

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Posted on: Friday, 6 November 2015 11:00 AM
Author: Eric Hand
Subject: [In Depth] How buried water makes diamonds and oil

Under high pressures, water can react with surrounding rock to make diamonds and oil. These are just two consequences of a new picture of water's versatile chemistry in the mantle. The Deep Earth Water model is showing that, under extreme pressures down to 200 kilometers, water can dissolve many ions and host unexpected new reactions. It is replacing a geochemical framework, published in 1981, which made predictions for water-rock interactions, but only down to 15 kilometers. The idea that oil can be made from water and rock in the mantle is controversial, because it has long been assumed that oil arises through the compaction and burial of organic matter. Author: Eric Hand


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