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How did the ocean become salty?

April 26, 2017ocean salty

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How did the ocean become salty?

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When the earth formed, those minerals from which it was made that are readily soluble (such as sodium chloride – salt, but also other minerals) in water dissolved into the water found on the planet. This water filled the lowest depressions to make the oceans and these oceans were and are salty.