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In brief, sodium chloride (salt) is a natural component of the rocks, and as erosion and solution take their course, the salt is dissolved and flows to the sea. The sea can absorb a large quantity of salt.
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How were the Utah Salt Flats formed?
It was formed when the ocean or salty body of water evaporated.
Is the ocean salty because of fish semen?
No, dissolved rock salt from rivers feeding the seas
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.
How are minerals formed in salt water?
because of the animals OK the person up there doesn't know what they're talking about, because what makes animals salty? THINK my science book has facts, and it says " salts have collected on the bottom of the ocean floor for billions of years. as rivers and streams flow toward the ocean, they dissolve minerals from the land. the running water carries these dissolved minerals to the ocean." therefore it does help make the ocean salty
What is the major source of oceanic salinity?
salt comes the salty rocks in the ocean. the currents pick them off.
What ocean is not salty?
all oceans are salty, but the Arctic Ocean has the least salt
Is the Indian Ocean salt or clear?
the Indian ocean is salty.
Are rivers and streams fresh or salty?
river is fresh water because it has no salt in it. ocean is salt water because of its salt content. hope this helps
What oceans are salty?
yes, they are salty ,with the help of sea water and ocean water we make salt.
Is the ocean salty because of whale semen?
The ocean is not salty because of whale semen. (See links below)
How do the material that makes water salty enter into the waterway?
The material that makes water salty is, you guessed it, salt! When various minerals are chemically weathered, they release there various constituents, and these then travel, dissolved in water, into the ocean. The water in the ocean then evaporates, rains, and flows back into the ocean loaded with more salt. The effect of this is to increase the concentration of salt in the ocean such that it seems "salty" to us.
Is the Atlantic Ocean fresh or salt water?
Like all oceans and seas, the Atlantic Ocean is salt water.
Is The ocean are salty because of the animals that swim in them?
No it is beause of the dissolved salt in them
Where does the salt water of the Chesapeake bay come from?
When a Newfoundland and a Golden Retriever where beaded they got the Chesapeake Bay Retriever.
Is ocean water drinkable by adding salt?
no ocean water can not be made drinkable by adding salt it would make it even more salty
Why is the water of the river fresh and the ocean is salty?
Because the silt in the sea has salt in it
What is the blue Whale Theory?
One myth about the blue whale is that its sperm causes the ocean to be salty. This is obviously untrue, the ocean water is salty because of the salt that is dissolved in it.
