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Title: Even though seawater continues to dissolve minerals from rocks and new minerals are added from the ...
Post by: jess9adamss on Feb 7, 2018
Even though seawater continues to dissolve minerals from rocks and new minerals are added from the interior of the earth, the salinity of the oceans is not increasing over time. Explain 3 reasons that cause this.
 
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Title: Even though seawater continues to dissolve minerals from rocks and new minerals are added from the ...
Post by: ngchristinee on Feb 7, 2018
The ocean's salinity is in equilibrium. Salts that are added to the oceans are removed by processes such as adsorption and other sedimentation processes, removal by sea spray, and removal by incorporation into living organisms.