Why is sea water salty? I mean... where does the salt in the sea come from?

Answer 1

The water in the sea comes from land sources such as rivers. While crossing land, the rivers absorb lots of salt from the land before depositing it in the sea.

Answer 2

It's to keep the fish kosher?
I read this somewhere but now I dont know.
I have written poems about this . ..
There might be something about it in the myth of Cronos and Uranus . .. ."When Uranus met with Gaia, Cronus attacked Uranus with the sickle, castrating him and casting the severed member into the sea. From the blood (or, by a few accounts, semen) that spilled out from Uranus and fell upon the earth, the Gigantes, Erinyes, and Meliae were produced. From the member that was cast into the sea, Aphrodite later emerged. For this, Uranus threatened vengeance and called his sons titenes ("straining ones") for overstepping their boundaries and daring to commit such an act, and this is the source of the name Titan.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cronos

Maybe it means man's curse of having to work the earth is almost over, it being filled with years of sweat and hard labor--how much saltier could it get???
"Ocean water is indeed a complex solution of mineral salts and of decayed biologic matter" --man returning to the dust of the earth, and his sweat filling the ocean? http://www.palomar.edu/oceanography/salt...

Answer 3

I read this on the Internet, so it MUST be true!

Sperm whales ejaculate 400 gallons of sperm and only about 10%
makes it into the female, so, that must be where the salty taste originates!

But, I think it is also from dissolved elements in the earth that is in contact with the water, all the volcanic fumeroles, under the oceans... land runoff... human wastes dumped from direct pipelines... huge salt deposits from crystalline structures formed long before the oceans, in the earth's crust...

Answer 4

The salt in the sea comes from the mineral rocks deposited in the sea. Sodium and chlorine compounds are also found in the sea and as salt is NaCl (Sodium chloride) the sodium and chlorine compounds may take part in producing salts too.

Answer 5

And where does the unsalted drinking water on the isolated islands in the salty Oceans comes from?

Answer 6

through millions of years when seas and oceans where in the making, water dissolved the minerals and other components found in rocks and dry land. It comes from rocks and other rocky formations.

Answer 7

It is comes from erroding rocks since long ago. Thats why it is sometime call mineral salt

Answer 8

some one was masturbatin or EGACULATING there...xD
im realy empolite