I was on a hike and read a plaque that said this area used to be completely covered by water. My question is, where did all that water go? Just absorbed into the ground? Evaporated?
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It is not so much a question of where the water goes but where the ground goes.
You can climb up Mount Everest and find marine fossils. This means that at some point the highest ground we have on the planet was once under water.
This does not mean some biblical flood, but rather that the ground moves. Continental drift and plate tectonics move landmasses around and like in the case of the Himalayas ocean floor may be piled up into tall mountains.
There are many places that were once dry land that are now under water and others that were covered in water are now dry land.
For example when Dinosaurs still roamed the land the center of what is now the US was covered in a great shallow ocean that connected the gulf of Mexico all the way up to the arctic ocean.
As recently as a few thousand years ago what is now Britain was connected to the rest of Europe by a landmass which existed where now there is the north sea.
Between the changes in climate and Continents drifting about how much of the world was covered in water changed over the ages
There are some theories that in the very distant past like 3 billions of years ago all the world or almost all of it was covered in water.
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