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These lakes tend to be salty, as minerals are constantly carried into them by incoming water.
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Are there salty lakes or seas?
yes there are salty seas. but lakes are very rare to find salty.
Why are lakes not salty?
Some lakes, such as the Great Salt Lake in Utah, are salty. The Great Lakes are freshwater because there is no source of salt to supply them.
Why are the great lakes salty?
These lakes have no outlets to carry the salts away to the sea.
What is saltwater ecosystem?
Ecosystem that is around salty water, such as salty lakes or seas.
Why are oceans salty but the great lakes are not salty?
The Great Lakes have an outlet: The Saint Lawrence. The reason why most lakes are not salty is because they have an outlet so the minerals do not accumulate. On top of that, they are well above sea level, so there is no chance of saltwater intrusion.
Does the desert have freshwater or saltwater?
Deserts can have fresh water but some of lakes that are salty, very salty.
What process makes some lakes salty?
Lakes become salty if the source of water flowing into the lake contains salt and the salty water cannot flow out of the lake. Salt lakes are endorheic, water leaves the lake by evaporation and leaves the salt and minerals in the remaining water.
Why aren't lakes salty?
Because people pee in the lakes and it kills the little sock particles.
What type of water do most of the lakes in the Great Basin have?
salty
What makes the great lakes great?
It's just salty
Why are lakes and rivers not salty?
Because the seas do not reach them to get salt into them
Why are almost all the lakes in the great basin desert salty?
These lakes have no outlets to carry the salts away to the sea.
