Re: Photos: If All of Earth's Water was put into Single Sphere, from the USGS Water Science School

Posted by Russ Abbott on May 06, 2012; 7:59pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Photos-If-All-of-Earth-s-Water-was-put-into-Single-Sphere-from-the-USGS-Water-Science-School-tp7533163p7533191.html

It is striking, but then I realized that we think of water in terms of its surface area. The surface of the earth is mostly water. And deep as the oceans are, their volume clearly doesn't compare to the volume of the earth

 

-- Russ

On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 12:41 PM, Owen Densmore <[hidden email]> wrote:

A bit surprising:
   http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/2010/gallery/global-water-volume.html
.. a picture of the earth and a sphere of all the earth's water .. as
a comparison.

  -- Owen

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