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posted by martyb on Friday December 16 2016, @02:26PM   Printer-friendly
from the just-a-mattter-of-time dept.

The world’s oldest water, which is locked deep within the Earth’s crust, just got even older.

The liquid was discovered deep down in a mine in Canada in 2013 and is about 1.5 billion years old.

But now, at the same site, University of Toronto scientists have found a deeper source of water that is at least 500 million years more ancient.

The work was presented at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in San Francisco.

Professor Barbara Sherwood Lollar, who led the team that made the discovery, told BBC News: “When people think about this water they assume it must be some tiny amount of water trapped within the rock.

“But in fact it’s very much bubbling right up out at you. These things are flowing at rates of litres per minute - the volume of the water is much larger than anyone anticipated.”

In your face, Peru!


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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Friday December 16 2016, @05:28PM

    by GreatAuntAnesthesia (3275) on Friday December 16 2016, @05:28PM (#442114) Journal

    Price =/= value. I bet you'd tear down the coliseum to build a shopping mall if the price was right.

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by bob_super on Friday December 16 2016, @06:51PM

    by bob_super (1357) on Friday December 16 2016, @06:51PM (#442151)

    A mall in place of the Coliseum? I wouldn't.

    Banks and McDonalds have better return per square metre. The rest can be luxury condos.