NathanGranite To Basalt
There was yet another discovery that surely made the team very excited. It was a discovery that occurred at the farthest reaches of the Kola Superdeep Borehole. As they measured the seismic waves, the researchers had already predicted that the rock under our feet transforms from granite to basalt at around two to four miles beneath the surface.
Not On Kola Peninsula
Since the scientists were mostly geological experts, they already made a few predictions as to what they might find under the earth. Like we had mentioned earlier, they assumed that the rock under the ground turns from granite to basalt 4 miles underneath the earth’s surface. But very soon they learned that this was not the case at all. Well, at least on the Kola Peninsula it was not.
Wrong Assumptions
So, in this case, the researchers discovered that only granite existed. So even at the deepest point of the borehole, there were only graphite rocks present. Ultimately, the researchers could then conclude that the change in seismic waves had been caused due to the metamorphic differences in the rock. It was actually not because of the shift to basalt. Their predicaments had all proven to be wrong so the researchers were more than ever, ready to clarify this confusion.
Discovery Of Water
However, this was not the real reason either. The researchers made a startling discovery when they went deeper and deeper into the core of the earth. Interestingly, they also found out that there was flowing water several miles underneath the Earth. Deep in the depths where no one expected to find water, researchers found out that they were actually flowing…
Inaccuracy
Even though there have been a few overzealous commenters who have jumped on the discovery of subterranean water as proof of biblical floods, this phenomenon is understood instead to be possible as an outcome of strong pressure forcing oxygen and hydrogen atoms out of the rock. It was nothing that these experts could have ever predicted according to their preconceived notions.
Trapped Water
They also made a few more interesting findings of what occurs deep under the earth’s surface. Even though they had investigated and researched on this topic for a long while, their actual findings could not have been more shocking. They realized that impermeable rocks have resulted in the newly formed water to become stuck beneath the surface. Who would have ever thought that deep in the earth’s surface, water would ever find itself there?