So by saying there is enough water beneath the crust of the Earth to fill our oceans 5 to 10 times you assume I am saying that water came to the surface and flooded the world in the flood of Noah and then went back into the mantle.
That is jumping to conclusion and putting words in my mouth.
I made a statement of fact according to what I read scientist have said.
I am saying the water is there now.
The question is how did that water get there?
The real question is what do you think this has to do with a biblical flood and why?
The water that is in the mantle would be under great presure...
There is no 'water',
per se... only hydrated minerals.
... which would exceed the gravatational pull on the water, as evidenced when a drill hits a pocket of oil in the litosphere under the waters of the ocean.
You mean the pressure would exdeed hydrostatic. Well, that's not surprsing since the water is not actually free. But how would you get it to dissociate and then expand?
Are you sure you want to compare an overpressured oil reservoir with hydrated minerals?
My question to you was how did that water get there?
Chemical reaction, likely in the area of a subduction zone.
There are only so many plates that exist and one has to dive under another to cause subduction so there is only about 6 places that the water could get into the mantle but it is throughout the mantle.
Actually, the presence of 'water' in the mantle is not homogeneous. It is higher over subduction zones.
The lithosphere is from 6 miles to 50 miles thick and sets on top of the asthenosphere which is up to 150 miles thick.
The asthenosphere has a lot of liquid in it.
Actually, not. The asthenospher is plastic, not liquid.
The lithosphere has a lot of liquid in it, including trillions of barrels of oil.
And how is all of this relevant?
That leads me to believe that the litosphere that is under water has water in it also. This is the water that would have came to the surface when the fountains of the deep were opened up.
Why?
And how?
Whether it would be saline water or fresh water would be irrelavant. I can drill a hole in my back yard to around 300 feet and get saline water.
As you said. This is irrelevant.
There is water in the asthenosphere as this is what is supposed to cool the plates providing lubrication to allow movement for the continents to move.
Please explain.
You seem to be arguing that there is no water that is available in the lithosphere that is covered by water, is that your argument?
Never occurred to me. Do you imagine that there was? How would you displace that water?
Are you including the lithosphere and the asthenosphere which is at least 6 to 100 miles thick in the crust?
Including it for what? This is our model.
They do exist before you get to the mantle.
Again, irrelevant. But also, technically not correct. At least part of the lithosphere is mantle and the asthenosphere is within the mantle.
Are you saying there is no water in the lithosphere and the asthenosphere under the sea?
I don't think so. I can only speak for myself, but I'm saying that there is no liquid water in the asthenosphere except possibly what finds its way into the volcanic arcs. I'm also saying that there is probably water in the upper parts of the lithosphere, but not in the mantle portion. Furthermore, the presence of water in the crustal and supracrustal rocks would have to be displaced in order to participate in a global flood.
All of our groundwater is in the lithosphere according to what I can find.
And only in the most shallow parts at that.
None of the charts list the amount of water in the asthenospher under our dry land. That is amazing because it has to have water in it if the mantle under it has water in it.
Please document these charts. And, no, I repeat that there is no liquid water in those areas.
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