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Dr Jack
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05-14-2009 11:51 AM 		Reply to: Message 1 by slevesque
05-14-2009 10:33 AM

Here is the link to the talkorigins article which attempted to rebute it (unsuccessfully):
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CD221.1: Amount of dissolved sodium in oceans
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Perhaps it would help if you could explain why you feel the explaination given there is unsuccessful?
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05-18-2009 12:08 PM 		Reply to: Message 61 by petrophysics1
05-18-2009 11:24 AM

Re: Another question
It was a stupid idea 110 years ago and still is. You have no idea if the ocean is in equilibrium today, has been in the past or not, so salinity could have been going up or down or staying the same at various times.
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Actually, we do know this. It can be determined from the various geological salt deposits around the world left when water from Oceans has, for one reason or another, been cut off and then evaporated out. And the result from these tells us that the salinity (and proportion of other disolved ions) has varied over geological time but not by vast amounts.
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05-18-2009 5:26 PM 		Reply to: Message 63 by mark24
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Re: Another question
Good point.
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