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Are there any fresh water oceans?

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All of the world's oceans are salt water and all of the seas which are connected to oceans are salt water.

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About 97.5% of water on Earth is salt water and 2.5% fresh water.

All of the oceans are salt water and the oceans represent more than 96% of all water on Earth.

Of the 2.5% fresh water, only 0.3% is in liquid form on the surface. Most of the rest is frozen or underground. Less than .01 % of all water is in lakes and rivers.

A breakdown of the various forms of water is as follows, going from the largest to the smallest.

96.5000% Oceans, Seas, bays

1.7400% Ice caps, glaciers, snow

0.9400% Saline Groundwater

0.7600% Fresh groundwater

0.0220% Ground ice and permafrost

0.0070% Fresh Lakes

0.0060% Saline Lakes

0.0010% Soil moisture

0.0010% Atmosphere

0.0008% Swamps

0.0002% Rivers

0.0001% Biological

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I dont know u just earsed the last one because it was inapropitte

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no never because there was always sand at the bottom of the ocean

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no there is not

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All five oceans are salt water.

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Most of the water on earth is salt water.

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