India News: NEW DELHI: In a significant finding, Indian and Japanese scientists have jointly discovered droplets of water trapped in mineral deposits that were li.
Using extensive laboratory analysis, they were able to confirm that the deposits are a product of precipitation from ancient ocean water, and not from other places, such as the Earth’s interior (for.
The researchers hunted for deposits across a long stretch of the western Kumaon Himalayas, extending from Amritpur to the Milam glacier, and Dehradun to the Gangotri glacier region.
Researchers from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and Niigata University have located droplets of water created during an ancient ocean which existed over 600 million years ago that were trapped in mineral deposits high in the Himalayas. Analysis of the deposits, which contained both calcium and magnesium carbonates, suggested possible reasons for a significant oxygenation event in the planet s history, according to the study.