Why the sea water is so salty?

Question

The river water is so tasty. All the river waters are get mixed in the sea. Logically the sea water should be more tastier than river water. But why it is Salty?

Answer 1

Well if you look at it crabs lobsters and squids are all salty. they are only found in seas so i think they make the sea water salty, haha. also think of all the sand in the beaches making the sea salty as well. heehee

Answer 2

Sea  water is  salty  so that

we can get  salt  cheap.

Answer 3

I think, there may be reason behind the flow of water.

More amount of water in sea & not much of move, but this is not true in case of river. River flows all the time !!

As much more steady water in sea, due to fossils of plants and animals in sea it becomes more & more salter than river.

Answer 4

Hi, Hope you are doing well.

Interesting question !!!!

Ocean water is a complex solution of mineral salts and of decaying/decayed biological matter that results from the abundance of life in the seas. Most of the ocean's salts were derived from gradual processes such the breaking up of the cooled igneous rocks of the Earth's crust by weathering and erosion, the wearing down of mountains, and the dissolving action of rains and streams which transported their mineral washings to the sea. Some of the ocean's salts have been dissolved from rocks and sediments below its floor. Other sources of salts include the solid and gaseous materials that escaped from the Earth's crust through volcanic vents or that originated in the atmosphere. This process has been occurring for hundreds of millions of years, and therefore early oceans wouldn't have been as salty as they are today.

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The ocean is not 'diluted' by the addition of fresh water through rain and rivers because the saltiness of the ocean is the result of several natural influences and processes, the salt load of the streams entering the ocean is just one of these factors.

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In addition, salts become concentrated in the sea because the sun's heat distills or vaporizes almost pure water from the surface of the sea and leaves the salts behind (this process is part of the continual exchange of water between the Earth and the atmosphere that is called the hydrologic cycle).

Answer 5

Salts become concentrated in the sea because the Sun's heat distills or vaporizes almost pure water from the surface of the sea and leaves the salts behind.

This process is part of the continual exchange of water between the Earth and the atmosphere that is called the hydrologic cycle. Water vapor rises from the ocean surface and is carried landward by the winds.

Answer 6

The sun evaporates some of the sea water , this is pure drinking water and is not salty , this blows over land and forms rain , whitch washes the land and picks up minerals etc Salts actually, and returns them to the sea through rivers.

This is a one way process that has been going on for millions of years and why the sea is so salty !