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Watery minerals from the deep, deep Earth

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Planetary science news! Not only does Earth have a nice, wet surface, but a new mineral sample gives us a peek at a wet interior, too. Water, water, everywhere…

One quibble — this isn’t a new suspicion amongst geoscientists. Instead, it’s the first direct proof from a deep-Earth mineral that those suspicions are correct! I do love me some data to back up a theory…

https://gizmodo.com/geologists-now-suspect-that-an-entire-oceans-worth-of-w-1543297094

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