World used to be covered in water?

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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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>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?

It would have been absorbed into the ground and/or tied up in glaciers and polar ice caps.