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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Over millions of years water dissolved salts out of the ground. Rivers carried that water into the sea where the plain water evaporated leaving salts behind. More salt was brought into the ocean but it could never leave and increased in concentration.

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