Comment on If a planet was completely covered in water, wouldn't it all be freshwater?

<- View Parent
AdNecrias@lemmy.pt ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

The rivers bring salt to the lakes and ocean that they erode when passing. Those get saltier over time. Evaporation filters that out and feeds the fresh water to everything again, but the salt gets deposited in the more permanent structures.

source
Sort:hotnewtop