2007-06-29 11:45:23 · 6 answers · asked by buttahball 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
As water flows along rivers, it leaches salt from the rocks. It also gets salt from rocks on the sea bed.
2007-06-29 11:50:02 · answer #1 · answered by Yates 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
From all the marine life and geologic features in the ocean. Marine organisms excrete salt. Salt also comes from sediments and minerals from the rocks and corals and other stuff in the ocean.
2007-06-29 11:55:33 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Most of the ocean's salt come from black smokers and white smokers. These are vents that circulate sea water to hot, upwelling magma, transfers ions from the magma and releases it to the oceans. Depending on the quantities of ions released, the salinity of ocean water changes. During the Lower Paleozoic, for instance, white smokers were releasing much magnesium, and most carbonates were composed of dolomite [MgCa(CO3)2], not calcite [CaCO3].
2007-06-29 11:53:42 · answer #3 · answered by Amphibolite 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Natural underground salt springs!
2007-06-29 11:52:29 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
From minerals dissolved by rivers and carried to the ocean.
2007-06-29 11:54:06 · answer #5 · answered by Renaissance Man 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
in prehistoric times, the palm trees released the salt i think it also comes from sandd
2007-06-29 11:52:59 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋