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Old 01-03-2003, 12:08 AM
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Default How high was the salanity of the oceans during the iceages?
any guesses? Wonder if it affected it even very much?
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Old 01-03-2003, 12:09 AM
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any guesses? Wonder if it affected it even very much?
Um.. you thinking of freezing your tank to raise the salinity?

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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.
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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.

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If you're looking for a serious answer.... ....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)

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