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How much water was carried by meteorites to aid in the formation of the oceans?
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∙ 12y ago
Supposedly about 2/3 of the earth's water was delivered through an asteroid, or comet.
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What is the cause of the formation of clouds?
water from the bodies of water such as oceans, lakes and/or rivers
What is early earth conditions?
there were meteorites, a lot of space debris and lightning and liquid water eventually made the oceans.
Where does the theory suggest that the water on the earth originate from i need to know before tomorrow?
Meteorites containing ices bombarded the Earth during formation.
What is the significance of carbonate in meteorites?
The significance of carbonate in meteorites from Mars is that they contain water.
Where did oceans come from?
Well water in the seas came from glaciers that melter over time....When the earth freezes it freezes the water into glacires which melt into water...but if your asking where it came from before the age of man then no one knows where it came from.
What is the significance of carbonate in meteorites from Mars?
The significance of carbonate in meteorites from Mars is that they contain water.
Sunlight provides the energy that evaporates water from the surface of Earth. Most water vapor forms over oceans. How does water vapor from the ocean reach the continents?
It is carried to and across the continents by wind.
What processes create canyons?
meteorites water flow and death
When and how did large bodies of water form on earth in earths early years?
Earth was bombarded with meteorites that had gases in them that had hydrogen, and the hydrogen became massive clouds and it rained for years on end. then coacervates formed, which led to the formation of the cell, which led to the formation of life through natural selection.
Oceans have what type of water?
Oceans have salt water.
How did the oceans originate?
When the Earth was formed, there obviously was a lot of water ice among the material that collected. This is believed to be a common component of the Oort Cloud, from which some meteorites come still. The various salts were derived by solution from the rocks of Earth.
Why among the the 8 planets is Earth the only one which has oceans of liquid water?
One important reason is that Earth has the right temperature. Another is that - due to its formation history - it has lots of water in the first place.
