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How were the first oceans formed...
three quarters of Earth is covered in
water
it’s why it’s called the blue planet but
imagine Earth without its oceans and
instead with all the water in the world
gather together in a bowl
there’s not that much really but this
water is what makes Earth different from
every other planet in the solar system
the oceans have been here for almost
four billion years carving the coastline
driving the climate and controlling the
destiny of life itself
but four and a half billion years ago
and our planet was born it was just a
molten infernal
there was no place for any liquid water
at all
yet the ingredients needed to create
water where they’re locked away deep
inside the earth on the planet form
as the Faust volcanoes erupted one of
the gases that bellowed Oh was still and
as a planet cooled it formed clothes
it rained for thousands of years
as the Faust rivers formed they began to
fill up the lower lying areas on our
young planet possibly creating the first
oceans but it’s reckoned even thi