GEOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -The oceans contain the majority of all water on Earth-almost 97% of global water is stored in oceans.

Detailed explanation-2: -But just how much water exists on, in, and above our planet? About 71 percent of the Earth’s surface is water-covered, and the oceans hold about 96.5 percent of all Earth’s water.

Detailed explanation-3: -The volume of water in all the oceans together is approximately 1.335 billion cubic kilometers (1.335 sextillion liters, 320.3 million cubic miles). It has been estimated that there are 1.386 billion cubic kilometres (333 million cubic miles) of water on Earth.

Detailed explanation-4: -The ocean holds about 97 percent of the Earth’s water; the remaining three percent is found in glaciers and ice, below the ground, in rivers and lakes. Of the world’s total water supply of about 332 million cubic miles of water, about 97 percent is found in the ocean.

Detailed explanation-5: -Most of Earth’s fresh water is locked in ice Most of that fresh water (68.7%) is frozen in glaciers and ice caps. Two ice sheets, the Antarctica Ice Sheet and the Greenland Ice Sheet, contain more than 99% of the ice on Earth’s surface.