Why the ocean is salty, and in time is it getting saltier?
How all oceanic creatures live with it all that salt. Is there a limit that sea creatures can endure salt?
Answers:
I agree with creviazuk with one addition. Sediments and water gets subducted along with oceanic crust at convergent plate boundaries. This is a good mechanism for removing salts and putting it into igneous rocks such as andesite.
Actually, I think that there is less salt in the ocean. With the icebergs melting, they are freshwater, into the saltwater, they dilute the saltwater.
Sea creatures may be able to adjust if the oceans become more salty over time and slow. But, the Dead Sea is a good example of too much. I do not think anything live in that water.
The ocean may become more saline just like the Dead Sea did, more being put in and no place to go.
The salt in the ocean comes from rivers carrying salts from the land into the sea. When ocean water evaporates it leaves the salt behind, the evaporated water becomes clouds which rain down on the land, dissolving more salt and carrying it to the sea. The salt content is therefore increasing, although melting ice does dilute the salt concentration.
ask god
he created it
Thats a bit like saying how do they live under water. or why dont we live in water or why cant we fly
no, no , and no. the Dead Sea and Great Salt Lake, the most saline places on earth, have been proven to have living organisms throughout them both. The oceans are giant buffer systems that help maintain bicarb and salinity of the entire earth, organisms that live in water adapt(not evolve) to all levels of salinity, usually slowly. In the same manner that the claim that global warming is de salinating the oceans and killing all life on earth is bogus, so also is the claim that engines and industry are destroying the ozone and locking all the O2 into CO and CO2 and choking all the animal life is bogus.. and the claim that evolution happens is a lie created by a science fiction writer named darwin,, who admitted that he lied!
actually its becoming more diluted
On the whole, oceanic chemicals & salt (sodium chloride) comes from TWO sources. Washed into the sea from the land mass and from underwater volcanic 'smokers'.
The sea doesn't get noticably saltier because of the massive volume of water compared to the generated salts. It's like adding one grain of salt into a pint of water every 100 years - it would take millions, if not billions of years to be much saltier.
Sea creatures can alter their salt content to match their surroundings (to an extent) and prevent osmosis from either leaching fluid or over saturating their cells.
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Answers:
I agree with creviazuk with one addition. Sediments and water gets subducted along with oceanic crust at convergent plate boundaries. This is a good mechanism for removing salts and putting it into igneous rocks such as andesite.
Actually, I think that there is less salt in the ocean. With the icebergs melting, they are freshwater, into the saltwater, they dilute the saltwater.
Sea creatures may be able to adjust if the oceans become more salty over time and slow. But, the Dead Sea is a good example of too much. I do not think anything live in that water.
The ocean may become more saline just like the Dead Sea did, more being put in and no place to go.
The salt in the ocean comes from rivers carrying salts from the land into the sea. When ocean water evaporates it leaves the salt behind, the evaporated water becomes clouds which rain down on the land, dissolving more salt and carrying it to the sea. The salt content is therefore increasing, although melting ice does dilute the salt concentration.
ask god
he created it
Thats a bit like saying how do they live under water. or why dont we live in water or why cant we fly
no, no , and no. the Dead Sea and Great Salt Lake, the most saline places on earth, have been proven to have living organisms throughout them both. The oceans are giant buffer systems that help maintain bicarb and salinity of the entire earth, organisms that live in water adapt(not evolve) to all levels of salinity, usually slowly. In the same manner that the claim that global warming is de salinating the oceans and killing all life on earth is bogus, so also is the claim that engines and industry are destroying the ozone and locking all the O2 into CO and CO2 and choking all the animal life is bogus.. and the claim that evolution happens is a lie created by a science fiction writer named darwin,, who admitted that he lied!
actually its becoming more diluted
On the whole, oceanic chemicals & salt (sodium chloride) comes from TWO sources. Washed into the sea from the land mass and from underwater volcanic 'smokers'.
The sea doesn't get noticably saltier because of the massive volume of water compared to the generated salts. It's like adding one grain of salt into a pint of water every 100 years - it would take millions, if not billions of years to be much saltier.
Sea creatures can alter their salt content to match their surroundings (to an extent) and prevent osmosis from either leaching fluid or over saturating their cells.
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