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The oceans are now "meant" to be salty they just are salty. The reason is that when rain falls on the land it disolves some of the chemicals in the soil and the rocks, water then flows into rivers and eventually the seas and the oceans, still catrrying its loads of dissolved chemicals which tend to be nitrates and chlorides because both are soluable, the nirtates get used up by marine vegetation but the chlorides (salts) remain in the water, hence the oceans and the seas are salty.
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Is pacific ocean salty?
Yes, all oceans are salty.
Are the Pacific and Indian Oceans saltwater?
All oceans are salty.
How do erosion and deposition affect the oceans?
They make the oceans water salty.
What ocean is not salty?
all oceans are salty, but the Arctic Ocean has the least salt
Is the Indiana ocean salty or fresh?
Salty. It's connected to all oceans, which are all saltwater, therefore, it is salty.
The early oceans became salty when?
dissolved solids were carried from land into oceans
How can you determine why oceans are salty?
whale seamen
Are rivers salty like oceans?
No they are not the same.
How salty is the Caspian Sea?
From what I've read , its approximately 1/3 as salty as the oceans.
Did oceans start off salty?
I believe that all water was originally salty, but freshwater formed when water evaporated out of the oceans and condensed somewhere else.
Why are the oceans so salty?
Salt is dissolved from the Earth and transported in oceans/seas by rivers.
If freshwater rivers drain into the oceans does that make the oceans become less salty?
Yes
