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Why are many lakes in the eastern mediterranean very salty and full of minerals?
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Why are lakes of the riftvalley salty?
These lakes tend to be salty, as minerals are constantly carried into them by incoming water.
Why isn't water salty?
Some water is salty. The ocean and some lakes are salt water. It depends on how many minerals are dissolved in the water.
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.
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.
Are there salty lakes or seas?
yes there are salty seas. but lakes are very rare to find salty.
Why are most rift valley lakes salty?
Why rift valley lakes salty
Is a lake salty?
They can be. It's all up to whether it has an outlet or not. Lakes with outlets are generally freshwater unless they are too close to the ocean and get intruded with seawater. If they have no outlet the minerals accumulates and the lake becomes 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 is the The Great Salt Lake so salty?
The great salt lake is salty because there's no outlet so the lakes that run in it just build it up like when rocks go in the great salt lake the minerals come off and make it salty!!!!!
Why are the great lakes salty?
These lakes have no outlets to carry the salts away to the sea.
Does the Mediterranean Sea have salty water?
Yes, it is a sea and has salty water.
Are all minerals salty?
no. The rock called rocksalt is salty.
