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Old 17-December-2007, 09:48 PM
JonClarke JonClarke is offline
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Originally Posted by RGClark View Post
Can not fresh water lakes be long lived?
Lakes are open systems with respect to salts, oceans much less so. In fact you have to actively remove salts from the oceans otherwise the oceans would be like the Dead Sea, a supersaturated brine.

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