Relief sculpture is sculpture that protrudes from a flat surface or plane. These sculptures can be made out of earth, stone or other various hard substances, and they are often carved into the sides of buildings or other objects. Keep Learning.
A scientists takes a sample of water from a mine deep underground in Ontario, Canada. The water turned out to be 2.6 billion years old, the oldest known water on Earth. Credit: B. Sherwood Lollar et al. Last month, scientists announced they had found an ancient pocket of water buried in a mine 2 miles below Earth's surface. The water, up to 2.6 billion years old, may have been around longer even than multicellular life. The find raises intriguing possibilities for understanding how life arose on Earth and if it could survive on other planets. But the really burning questions is, of course, what does it taste like?
How much water is there? Water covers nearly three-fourths of the Earth's surface and is mostly found in the oceans and seas. That sounds like a lot of water, right? Well, it is, but we can't drink much of it. Since more than 97% of the water on earth is in the form of salt water, only a tiny amount of water is usable as fresh, drinking water. Human beings cannot drink salt water. We need fresh water to survive. So, just exactly how much fresh water is there? Two percent (2%) of the water on Earth is in the form of frozen fresh water, but it is not usable by human beings. Only about 1% of the total water on Earth is in the form of fresh water that is found in lakes, streams, rivers, soil and underground reservoirs or aquifers.