Re: Q: Halite - What happened?

MiRe wrote:
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


No, Mike, you're OK. The Geo that wrote that got it all wrong, Geos can believe Ten impossible things before breakfast.

gresham

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