A small, battered diamond found in the gravel strewn along a shallow riverbed in Brazil has provided evidence of a vast "wet zone" deep inside the Earth that
could hold as much water as all the world's oceans put together. The
water is not sloshing around inside the planet, but is held fast within
minerals in what is known as the Earth's transition zone, which
stretches from 410 to 660km (250-400 miles) beneath the surface.
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