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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.)
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....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!.......)
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To improve the taste?


12 posted on 07/09/2007 3:09:15 PM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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Why are the Oceans salty ?

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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)
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"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.)
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....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)
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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.)
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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).

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53 posted on 07/09/2007 9:48:00 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (This tagline optimized for the Mosaic browser. Profile updated Monday, July 9, 2007.)
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"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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