Earth is eating its own oceans

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The Earth is eating its own oceans

  Is This About!!!??? I'm waiting for Al Gore to make a Statement that Climate Change is Causing EarthQuakes and Volcanoes and that it is our Fault The Oceans are Slipping beneath the Tectonic Plates!!

As Earth's tectonic plates dive beneath one another, they drag three times as much water into the planet's interior as previously thought.

Those are the results of a new paper published today (Nov. 14) in the journal Nature. Using the natural seismic rumblings of the earthquake-prone subduction zone at the Marianastrench, where the Pacific plate is sliding beneath the Philippine plate, researchers were able to estimate how much water gets incorporated into the rocks that dive deep below the surface. [In Photos: Ocean Hidden Beneath Earth's Surface]

Ok,, let me get this straight in my head,,,,,as the plates slip below the other plate it drags or absorbs ocean water with it. 
Is there Room? Is there as space there for water to seep through? Is there a suction type action?
No.
Their answer it this.

Water is stored in the crystalline structure of minerals, Shillington wrote. The liquid gets incorporated into the Earth's crust both when brand-new, piping-hot oceanic plates form and when the same plates bend and crack as they grind under their neighbors. This latter process, called subduction, is the only way water penetrates deep into the crust and mantle, but little is known about how much water moves during the process, study leader Chen Cai of Washington University in St. Louis and his colleagues wrote in their new paper.

"Before we did this study, every researcher knew that water must be carried down by the subducting slab," Cai told Live Science. "But they just didn't know how much water."

The researchers used data picked up by a network of seismic sensors positioned around the central Marianas Trench in the western Pacific Ocean.
The deepest part of the trench is nearly 7 miles (11 kilometers) below sea level. The sensors detect earthquakes and the echoes of earthquakes ringing through Earth's crust like a bell.

Cai and his team tracked how fast those temblors traveled: A slowdown in velocity, he said, would indicate water-filled fractures in rocks and "hydrated" minerals that lock up water within their crystals.

 Ok, So just how much water do you think goes under our feet? :smalleyeroll: 

The researchers observed such slowdowns deep into the crust, some 18 miles (30 km) below the surface, Cai said.
Using the measured velocities, along with the known temperatures and pressures found there, the team calculated that the subduction zones pull 3 billion teragrams of water into the crust every million years (a teragram is a billion kilograms).

Three Billion WHAT!? 
Is Al Gore going to start announcing we are Draining our Oceans????
Oh, a they are talking about kilograms, that's not so bad is it?

Seawater is heavy; a cube of this water 1 meter (3.3 feet) long on each side would weigh 1,024 kilograms (2,250 lbs.).
But still, the amount pulled down by subduction zones is mind-boggling.
It's also three times as much water as subduction zones were previously estimated to take in, Cai said.

Holy-Shit Batman,,,,  That is a Lot Of Water!!!!!!
Where is it all going? Does it come back? 

And that raises some questions: The water that goes down must come up, usually in the contents of volcanic eruptions.

The new estimate of how much water is going down is larger than estimates of how much is being emitted by volcanos, meaning scientists are missing something in their estimates, the researchers said.
There is no missing water in the oceans, Cai said.
That means the amount of water dragged down into the crust and the amount spouted back out should be about equal.

The fact that they aren't suggests that there's something about how water moves through the interior of Earth that scientists don't yet understand.
Source

OK, there is No Missing Water in our Oceans,,,,, That means Old Al Gore Can Just Go Set Down and Play With Himself.
Unless of-course he wants to say that the missing water is replaced by our melting Ice Caps. 

So, what do you think?