[meteorite-list] Evidence for Primordial Water in Earth’s Deep Mantle

[Paul]

Was Earth's water actually here all along?
by Eva Botkin-Kowacki, Christian Science Monitor
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2015/1112/Was-Earth-s-water-actually-here-since-the-very-beginning

UH researchers shed new light on the origins of Earth's water
UH System Current News, University of Hawai
http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/info/press-releases/water-origins/

Baffin Island provides insights into origin of Earth's water
American Association for the Advancement of Science
SpaceRef, November 12, 2015
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=47326

Earth may have kept its own water rather than getting
it from asteroids, Science /AAAS, November 12, 2015
http://news.sciencemag.org/earth/2015/11/earth-may-have-kept-its-own-water-rather-getting-it-asteroids

Earth's Water May Be as Old as the Earth Itself
by Sarah Zielinski, Smithsonian , November 12, 2015
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/ist/?next=/science-nature/earths-water-may-be-old-earth-itself-180957262/

The paper is:

Hallis, H. J., G. R. Huss, K. Nagashima, G. J. Taylor,
S. A. Halldórsson, D. R. Hilton, M. J. Mottl, and K. J.
Meech, 2015, Evidence for primordial water in Earth’s
deep mantle. Science, vol. 350, no. 6262, pp. 795-797.
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/350/6262/795.short

Yours,

Paul H.