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Ocean floor geysers could hold key to understanding our evolution
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_technology/article330311.ece

By Simon Hadlington
Published: 30 November 2005

In the foothills of the Troodos mountains in Cyprus, Dr Crispin Little
sifts through the debris from an abandoned sulphide mine. Little is
searching for the preserved remains of marine creatures that lived in
the deep ocean millions of years ago. The sulphide deposits once lay
thousands of metres below the surface of the sea and were thrust
upwards during huge movements of the Earth's crust.

The deposits were formed by hydrothermal vents, small openings in the
ocean floor that spew out hot water. These vents support a bewildering
array of animals. They form at the junctions of the tectonic plates
that make up the Earth's crust. Sea water seeps into newly formed crust
where it gets heated up and strips the underlying volcanic rock of
minerals. Eventually this "hydrothermal fluid", which can be as hot as
400C, finds its way back to the surface, where it can gush out like an
underwater geyser.

This discovery appears consistent with the "fountains of the deep"
mentioned in Genesis.
Gen 7:11 "In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, on the seventeenth
day of the second month - on that day all the springs of the great deep
burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened." [TNIV]

Gen 8:2 "Now the springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens
had been closed, and the rain had stopped falling from the sky." [TNIV]

There is growing evidence that there is still a huge amount of water
stored deep in the earth in crystal lattices of minerals, which is
possible because of the immense pressure. See L. Bergeron, "Deep
waters," New Scientist, 1997, 155(2097):22-26:"You have oceans and
oceans of water stored in the transition zone. It's sopping wet."

For more info see: S.A. Austin, J.R. Baumgardner, D.R. Humphreys, A.A.
Snelling, L. Vardiman, and K.P. Wise, "Catastrophic Plate Tectonics:
A Global Flood Model of Earth History," Proc. Third ICC, 1994.

This discovery appears consistent with the "fountains of the deep"
mentioned in Genesis.
Gen 7:11 "In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, on the seventeenth
day of the second month - on that day all the springs of the great deep
burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened." [TNIV]

Gen 8:2 "Now the springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens
had been closed, and the rain had stopped falling from the sky." [TNIV]

There is growing evidence that there is still a huge amount of water
stored deep in the earth in crystal lattices of minerals, which is
possible because of the immense pressure. See L. Bergeron, "Deep
waters," New Scientist, 1997, 155(2097):22-26:"You have oceans and
oceans of water stored in the transition zone. It's sopping wet."

For more info see: S.A. Austin, J.R. Baumgardner, D.R. Humphreys, A.A.
Snelling, L. Vardiman, and K.P. Wise, "Catastrophic Plate Tectonics:
A Global Flood Model of Earth History," Proc. Third ICC, 1994.

maff wrote:

Ocean floor geysers could hold key to understanding our evolution
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_technology/article330311.ece

By Simon Hadlington
Published: 30 November 2005

In the foothills of the Troodos mountains in Cyprus, Dr Crispin Little
sifts through the debris from an abandoned sulphide mine. Little is
searching for the preserved remains of marine creatures that lived in
the deep ocean millions of years ago. The sulphide deposits once lay
thousands of metres below the surface of the sea and were thrust
upwards during huge movements of the Earth's crust.

The deposits were formed by hydrothermal vents, small openings in the
ocean floor that spew out hot water. These vents support a bewildering
array of animals. They form at the junctions of the tectonic plates
that make up the Earth's crust. Sea water seeps into newly formed crust
where it gets heated up and strips the underlying volcanic rock of
minerals. Eventually this "hydrothermal fluid", which can be as hot as
400C, finds its way back to the surface, where it can gush out like an
underwater geyser.

This discovery appears consistent with the "fountains of the deep"
mentioned in Genesis.
Gen 7:11 "In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, on the seventeenth
day of the second month - on that day all the springs of the great deep
burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened." [TNIV]

Gen 8:2 "Now the springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens
had been closed, and the rain had stopped falling from the sky." [TNIV]

There is growing evidence that there is still a huge amount of water
stored deep in the earth in crystal lattices of minerals, which is
possible because of the immense pressure. See L. Bergeron, "Deep
waters," New Scientist, 1997, 155(2097):22-26:"You have oceans and
oceans of water stored in the transition zone. It's sopping wet."