Q: Halite - What happened?
- From: "MiRe" <MiRe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2006 17:31:14 -0000
Hi all,
I was just looking up Dead Sea in Wikipedia (I forget why), when I came
across this line under Halite:
"Halite occurs in vast beds of sedimentary evaporite minerals that result
from the drying up of enclosed lakes, playas, and seas. Salt beds may be up
to 350 m thick and underlie broad areas."
350 m thick ? Does this mean that at sometime in our past our oceans were a
lot saltier than they are now? Would this increased salinity have hampered
the beginnings of life until all that salt was safely locked up as rock
salt. Or have I got it all wrong again?
Cheers,
Mike
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