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What volume of water is deposited into the ocean from rivers in a year?
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(1.5 billion metric tons)
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Where are the biggest diamonds found?
The biggest diamonds are found in the earth, in diamond mines or as alluvial stones deposited by water in rivers and as rivers empty into the ocean.
Why the water of the ocean is salty?
When water goes to the ocean, most of the time its by a river. When rivers travel over land it picks up particles like salt. When the river meets the ocean at the rivers delta the slowing of the speed of the river causes the bigger sized particles to get deposited at the bottom of the ocean. The smaller particles(salt) remain in the water making the water salty.
Where is silt and soil deposited?
Silt and soil are most deposited in the water and then it goes in to the rivers or oceans :)
What is one advantage of rivers overflowing?
nutrients in the water can be deposited
What is alluvium and how is it used?
Sediment deposited by flowing water
Why is earths water cycle balanced?
As water is deposited on land, water from rivers flows into the ocean. As the air becomes humid from over-saturation, it forms clouds and it rains. As the air becomes less humid, it can evaporate more water.
Most river sediments are deposited?
They are deposited at the river mouth, before it finally empties its water into the ocean.
How are oceans and rivers alike and how are they different?
Rivers form at high ground where water vapor becomes cold and condenses into rain. Rivers almost always feed into the Ocean eventually. River water is generally high in nutrients, good for irrigation and farming, drinkable, and contains about 1 part per thousand salt content. Ocean water is undrinkable. It is an extremely expensive process to desalinate ocean water for mass consumption. Ocean water contains a much higher salt content, because rivers have deposited salt into the oceans for millions of years. Ocean water contains about 35 parts per thousand. Also Oceans differ from rivers in that they support the thermohaline cycle, which transfers heat from the equator to colder regions of the world.J.P. -lord geographer
Where did the water of the ocean come from?
the main source for the ocean water is the rain and spring water and water coming and adding from the rivers
What winds up carrying water to the ocean?
Rivers
How do rivers affect the ocean?
They add more water to the ocean.
What would happen if river water where to flow into the ocean?
River water DOES flow into the ocean. Although some rivers flow into lakes, all those lakes have rivers flowing out of them that eventually end up in the ocean (except for a few inland bodies of salt water such as the Dead Sea and the Great Salt Lake).
