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outgassing of elements from Earth's interior.
Hot water is able to hold dissolved solids such as minerals. These minerals are thought to give hot springs their therapeutic properties.
Convection / Magma
The heat at the centre of the earth is thought to be caused by the decay of radioactive materials, such as uranium, thorium and possibly an isotope of potassium. However this is currently not confirmed.
After the oceans formed; you could imagine that the water was full of all sorts of materials, which were dissolved from the rocks as the waters slowly filled up the oceans, when the earth cooled sufficiently for large volumes of water to accumulate. The dissolved materials included a lot of iron salts (probably iron chloride and iron sulphate); as well as the soduim chloride still present today. The first forms of life that developed are thought to be bacteria (similar to today's blue-green algae). They didn't require oxygen, but converted carbon dioxide and water to sugars using sunlight; much like todays plants. Oxygen was actually a waste product, so they excreted it (blue green algae still do this today). Conditions were ideal for them, so they multiplied rapidly, and had the oceans mostly to themselves for hundreds of millions of years. The oxygen they gave off reacted with the dissolved iron salts in the water to form iron hydroxides and iron oxides. These materials are insoluble; so they settled to the bottom. It took millions of years for the oxygen to react with all the dissolved iron, and very thick deposits formed. These can still be seen today, and are called 'banded iron formation'. Finally, when most of the iron had been precipitated out of the water, there was an excess of oxygen, which was partly dissolved in the water, and then also passed into the atmosphere, enabling marine and terrestrial oxygen requiring life forms to develop. This where the oxygen in the atmosphere came from; and if it weren't for the early cyanobacteria, life on earth would not exist. Over time, the large deposits of iron rich sediments were moved and changed because of the movements of the crustal plates, and they eventually formed large deposits of magnetite and haematite, which make up most of the world's iron ore deposits. That is why most iron ore deposits are found in ancient rock formations.
outgassing of elements from Earth's interior.
The second source of elements found in seawater is from the Earth's interior. Through volcanic eruptions, large quantities of water vapor and other gases have been emitted during ,uch of geologic time. This process is called OUTGASSING
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Siobhán?
It's thought to have originated in Provence with the troubadours.
Question mark is thought to originate from the Latin quaestiō meaning question. Exclamation mark is also thought to originate from the Latin exclamation of "joy".
It is thought to have come from the Mongolian word for 'brave.'
Cerebrum
It's thought to have originated in Provence with the troubadours.
The name is thought to originate among Isrealites that lived in Egypt. This name could be said to originate from Egypt.
someone thought of an easier way to get music
It is thought that the first gingerbread was made by Catholic monks in Europe.