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Dresden

01-03-2003 12:08 AM

How high was the salanity of the oceans during the iceages?

any guesses? Wonder if it affected it even very much?

StirCrazy

01-03-2003 12:09 AM

Re: How high was the salanity of the oceans during the iceag

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Originally Posted by Dresden

any guesses? Wonder if it affected it even very much?

Um.. you thinking of freezing your tank to raise the salinity? :wink:

Steve

Dresden

01-03-2003 01:11 AM

no my morning hangover state i was thinking with all the ice and frozen water (since salt doesn't freeze?) the ocean salanity would have raised some, but not sure how much.

FishGeek

01-03-2003 08:55 AM

Wouldn't the salt solution freeze as a salt solution. I think that when water freezes, everything mixed in the water freezes with it. Sort of like kool-aid. When you freeze it, the ice is not just water.

Simon

MitchM

01-04-2003 03:35 AM

If you're looking for a serious answer.... :wink: ....not much. Right now the world's oceans salinity ranges from 32 to 39 ppt. A lower water level of 120 meters back then and lower surface temperatures had a more significant effect.
(Daly, 1915)

Mitch :twisted:

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