How come part of Salton sea in Indio Ca. just dry up.?
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Geological movement over the years cut off it's source and outlet, thus isolating the Salton Sea. Water evaporates but the salt doesn't.
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there are 2 possible answers  the first is it got dirty the second is it dried out.
792005
It is the dry air which causes such a problem.  Check for the humidity levels as undue dryness will aggravate your problem.
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As water flows in rivers, it picks up small amounts of mineral salts from the rocks, dried up remains of ancient salt seas and lakes and soil of the river beds. This very-slightly salty water flows into the oceans and seas. The water in the oceans only leaves by evaporating (and the freezing of polar ice), but the salt remains dissolved in the ocean - it does not evaporate. So the remaining water gets saltier and saltier as time passes.\n\nAnd please SEARCH before asking questions.
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Let it dry, and wait 'til someone says something about it.\nThen freak out, shouting obscenities about seagulls in the desert.
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i noticed that too!!!! like by the hundreds, i think either the water drifts them out, or they can't breath under the water and the mud so they get out!
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Because of the major fault line running through it. Do a Google on 'fault line' and California.
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Well, I can tell you that hurricanes, if they stay around long enough, will errode the beachline tremendously.  Last year, one of Florida's hurricanes (or a combination of all three of them) erroded the line so badly that some of the original beachline motel foundations were showing.  AND...a bus that was burried since the 60's (by reckoning) actually showed up half-buried.  Now THATS alot of errosion.
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While Mara gives a good description on the origin of salts in water (all water in general) it doesn't explain why the ocean is salty and streams, lakes etc are not.\n\nBascially the ocean has no outlet. Once water reaches the ocean, it stays there, along with all it's transported salts and minerals. \n\nThe Earth has weather though, and weather is driven in a large part by evaporation of water from the Earth's oceans. \n\nWhen you evaporate the water content, you fractionally reduce the volume of water, which therefore fractionally increases the concentration of salts and minerals. You should also know that some of these salts and minerals are removed from the oceans by precipitation into sediments on the ocean floors. So over the millions of years that the oceans have been around they have grown relatively saltier than the bodies of water that contribute to the oceans.\n\nThis process is exaggerated in trapped bodies of water that recieve a lot of heating. Take the Dead Sea for example - it's an enclosed body of water and since it does not have the vast volume of the world's oceans, the salt concentration process runs much faster. The Dead Sea is currently 6x saltier than the ocean. Salt lakes on any continent are another smaller example again - you'll find them in the USA and Australia to name but two examples.\n\nCommercial Salt production uses the same process, of evaporating water to leave behind salts.
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Just places were dead skin has fallen off of Clausius<sp>>\nBecause it's all  dead skin it kind rips out and irregular leaving voids..
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Some close on Christmas. The one in my town is near a creek and gets flooded sometimes. They have to close the store until it is cleaned up.
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Because the salt content will dehydrate you. And severe dehydration could kill you especially if you are out at sea and medical treatment is not nearby.
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the sbdo mts are the head waters for several rivers that end in the pacific.\nthe specific river that would go to oc is the santa ana\nit parallels the riverside (91) freway thru the santa ana canyon. looking at the bed you see a lot of high grade sand.\nif you look at the cemented in portion of the river, you'll see that after the rainy season big earth movers are in it to remove all the alluvia deposited.\ngeologically, in the last 25000 years the santa ana has flowed from the bluffs of newport beach to the san pedro hills, so that for the most part the entire area is river bottom silt.
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As water flows down rivers into the ocean, minerals dissolve in it. When the water gets to the ocean, solar radiation vaporizes the water and leaves the dissolved minerals behind. Over time, millions and millions of years, the concentration of these minerals increases.  The Salton Sea in California is an example of a speeded up version of the process. About the year 1909, the Colorado River was diverted from its course and flowed into the Salton Sea, which was a dry low area. It took some time to block the diversion. By the time it was complete there was a new fresh water lake there.  During the last 90+ years, that fresh water lake has turned into a sea more saline than the ocean.
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Use a Q-tip and apply it directly to it.. it will dry the area...
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because of the salt content, salt tends to draw water out, hence out in the open the salt would allow the water to be evaporated much more quickly than fresh water
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As others have said, it doesn't fall, it condenses onto cool surfaces when the humidity is very high.  Since humidity is relative to air temperature, you get dew in the early hours of the morning when it is coldest.  \n\nThe sea contains salt water because salt is very common in the earth's top crust and rain washes the salt seawards.  In areas where rivers can't get to the sea, you will get salt lakes, such as in Utah.\n\nDeciduous trees lose their leaves in the fall by drawing whatever water they can into the tree's trunk and using sugars and salts as a natural antifreeze.  The leaves die off with the lack of water.\n\n"where do scorpions go when its cold?"  I don't know, and I don't wanna know.  However, if you are worried about it, they do flouresce under black light!