Photo: mishainik/Depositphotos(Not a photo of the actual event.)
Have you ever thought about how old water is?
If not, you are probably in the majority.
Photo: mishainik/Depositphotos(Not a photo of the actual event.)
Water regularly cycles through our atmosphere by evaporating and condensing.
The global amount typically remainsroughly the sameas molecules form and reform.
However, some reservoirs of H20 have been isolated from this cyclical process.
Sampling dissolved hydrogen and sulphate from water that is over one billion years old. (Photo: G. Wunsch/University of Toronto)
Researchers from the University of Toronto discovered pools of ancient water in a deep Canadian mine.
The water is well over one billion years old!
This water was the oldest uncovered by at least 500 million years.
Down the Canadian mine where the ancient water was discovered. (Photo: University of Toronto)
The previous record was set by the same researchers in 2013 in Kidd Mine in Ontario.
The groundwater flows slowly and contains gasses gleaned from the cracks in surrounding rocks.
But in fact, its very much bubbling right up out at you.
University of Toronto team members collected samples of water 1.49 miles underground in Timmins. (Photo: Barbara Sherwood Lollar/University of Toronto)
The ancient water has also produced signs of past micro life.
Sampling dissolved hydrogen and sulphate from water that is over one billion years old.
(Photo: G. Wunsch/University of Toronto)
Down the Canadian mine where the ancient water was discovered.
University of Toronto team members collected samples of water 1.49 miles underground in Timmins.
