why is the ocean salty, and how did it get that way?

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why is the ocean salty, and how did it get that way?

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Salt is just a type of rock. When rivers flow, they wear away at rocks. Some of those rocks are salt. The rivers flow into the ocean, dropping off all that salt. When the ocean evaporates to produce more rain over land, the water evaporates, but the salt stays behind. This is how the ocean and inland seas became salty