Now, I'm all new to this site. And it seemed to me (via the ''search button'') that this topic of not enough salt in the oceans hadn't had a thread of its own.
Considering that this method was first brought in Newton's days, and that the problem of missing salt was found out by John Joly (geologist,physicist) who calculated a maximum age of 98millions years. I have never found any peer-reviewed article that resolved it. I thought it would be cool to discuss it on here
here are the references to Halley and Joly's article:
2.E. Halley, ‘A short account of the cause of the saltness [sic] of the ocean, and of the several lakes that emit no rivers; with a proposal, by help thereof, to discover the age of the world’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 29:296—300, 1715
3.J. Joly, ‘An estimate of the geological age of the earth’, Scientific Transactions of the Royal Dublin Society, New Series, 7(3), 1899; reprinted in Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution, June 30, 1899, pp. 247—288
This is the link to the Humphreys and Austin research on this which I am sure everyone has already seen and ''debunked'':
The Sea's Missing Salt: A Dilemma For Evolutionists
Here is the link to the talkorigins article which attempted to rebute it (unsuccessfully):
CD221.1: Amount of dissolved sodium in oceans
For those who do not know the subject a lot, a quick resume is that there is an input of 450 millions tons/year of salt going in the oceans, while only 27% goes out (as calculated by Humphreys and Austin)
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