Not exact matches
It is probably generated when
water in the moon's
subterranean ocean reacts with rock in its core, researchers report in the April 14 Science.
The
subterranean ocean is thought to have more
water than all the
water on Earth's surface.
The sinkhole is also where the freshwater supplying the
subterranean estuary comes from — rainfall and salt
water from the
ocean feed into it to form the distinct
water layers found there.
In 2005, NASA's Cassini probe spotted plumes erupting from the Enceladus» south polar terrain, sending
water vapor and solid particles from that
subterranean ocean off into space.
So, if half the
water in today's
oceans came from the
subterranean chambers (as assumed on page 124), then almost all heavy hydrogen came from the
subterranean chambers.
As the
oceans levels rose, glacial
waters flowed through the limestone deposits of the then exposed Lighthouse Reef resulting in huge
subterranean caverns.
In California, the most common causes are
water main breaks and sewer pipe collapses, but a sudden collapse in the earth's crust due erosion or
subterranean caves that form near the
ocean can also be the cause.