To: blam
I always love these type of articles.......a general question............I’ll comment way deep in the thread
....Why are the Oceans salty ?........
4 posted on
07/09/2007 2:59:27 PM PDT by
advertising guy
(If computer skills named us, I'd be back-space delete.)
To: advertising guy
....Why are the Oceans salty ?........
Because of Joe Cocker?.....
8 posted on
07/09/2007 3:04:57 PM PDT by
Red Badger
(No wonder Mexico is so filthy. Everybody who does cleaning jobs is HERE!.......)
To: advertising guy
12 posted on
07/09/2007 3:09:15 PM PDT by
CaptainK
(...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
To: advertising guy
Why are the Oceans salty ?
24 posted on
07/09/2007 3:42:06 PM PDT by
JRios1968
(Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will. - Ben Stein)
To: advertising guy
"Why are the Oceans salty ?........" Because the volcanoes disgorged massive amounts of minerals into the sea.
The real question is: "After a couple billion years of this, why aren't the seas more salty?
28 posted on
07/09/2007 3:50:35 PM PDT by
cookcounty
(Forgotten in the fray: Saddam killed, on average, 6,223 muslims per month, for 27 years.)
To: advertising guy
....Why are the Oceans salty ?........ You had to ask!
34 posted on
07/09/2007 4:18:59 PM PDT by
COBOL2Java
(The Democrat Party: radical Islam's last hope)
To: advertising guy
Rivers have been dumping dissolved salts from land into the oceans, for billions of years.
44 posted on
07/09/2007 8:53:13 PM PDT by
CarrotAndStick
(The articles posted by me needn't necessarily reflect my opinion.)
To: advertising guy
Sodium (for the sodium chloride, common table salt, which is the most abundant in the oceans) could have reached the waters from the rocks of the Earth, but chlorine is much rarer, and may be extraterrestrial in origin (not ET, just from debris hitting the Earth).
Small Comets and Our Origins
University of Iowa | circa 1999 | Louis A. Frank
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1250694/posts
53 posted on
07/09/2007 9:48:00 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
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To: advertising guy
"Why are the oceans salty?..."
Bright Bank, and underwater salt dome on the continental shelf of the Gulf of Mexico, showing relative height above the seafloor, or depth below the surface of the ocean. The warm colors are highest (or shallowest) and the cold colors are lowest (or deepest).
55 posted on
07/10/2007 3:26:06 AM PDT by
Fred Nerks
(Fair dinkum!)
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