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The Great Lakes are not salty because they are filled with freshwater from rivers and streams, and are not connected to the ocean.

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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 are the great lakes salty?

These lakes have no outlets to carry the salts away to the sea.


What is the lakes that great in it but arent great lakes?

In Canada, it is the Great Bear lake and Great Slave lake.


What makes the great lakes great?

It's just salty


What type of water do most of the lakes in the Great Basin have?

salty


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.


Are there salty lakes or seas?

yes there are salty seas. but lakes are very rare to find salty.


Why are lakes of the riftvalley salty?

These lakes tend to be salty, as minerals are constantly carried into them by incoming water.


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!!!!!


Is a lake salty or freshwater?

Most lakes are fresh water, though some lakes are saline. The Great Salt Lake in Utah is saltier than the ocean, as is Salton Sea in southern California and the Dead Sea in the middle east (the Dead Sea is nearly ten times more salty than the ocean).


Can you get a list of salty food?

yes you can only because of everything that is salty has more sodium then thos e that arent salty ( frech fries don count as salty)


Why are almost all the lakes in the great basin desert salty?

These lakes have no outlets to carry the salts away to the sea.