• cholesterol@lemmy.worldEnglish
    27·
    1 month ago

    The Earth’s surface area is about 70% percent covered by water.

    More than 95 percent of the water is in the oceans, and they make up less than 1 percent of the Earth’s total volume.

    If you go by mass instead of volume the fraction is even lower.

    • Goldmage263OP
      6·
      1 month ago

      Very true, and although my specialty is not geology, I’m fairly confident the magma is also not carbonated.

      • sugar_in_your_tea
        3·
        1 month ago

        Idk, how do you explain geysers? If you taste the water runoff, it’s very clearly carbonated (and nasty with a very metallic taste).

        • Goldmage263OP
          2·
          1 month ago

          I expected most volcanic gasses (and geysers) to be largely sulfuric. After looking it up, I have to agree. The Earth is full of dissolved gasses making it not flat.

      • Dremor@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 month ago

        I’m not a geologist either, but I know there is in fact have a lot of gaz dissolved into magma.

        Considering there is far more magma than water on earth, I can confidently say that eath is not flat.

    • aow
      6·
      1 month ago

      Ok, so it’s flat and on top of another object, like a board on a wheel! The surface is flat but wobbles a bit.