Originally Posted by
biggqwesty
Why is the sea salty??
After years and years of river inflow and evaporation, the*saltcontent of the lake water built up to the present levels. The same process made the*seas salty. Rivers carry dissolved salts to the ocean. Water evaporates from the oceans to fall again as rain and to feed the rivers, but the salts remain in the ocean.
How salty is the ocean????
If the salt in the sea could be removed and spread evenly over the Earth's land surface it would form a layer more than 500 feet thick, about the height of a 40-story office building.*
So this got me thinking. (and yes it's hurting)....
If salt can't evaporate but it's still being added from the rivers, will the ocean eventually be to salty to sustain life??