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These lakes have no outlets to carry the salts away to the sea.
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Why are lakes not salty?
Some lakes, such as the Great Salt Lake in Utah, are salty. The Great Lakes are freshwater because there is no source of salt to supply them.
What makes the great lakes great?
It's just salty
What type of water do most of the lakes in the Great Basin have?
salty
Why are oceans salty but the great lakes are not salty?
Oceans are salty because over millions of years, rainwater has washed minerals from rocks on land into the ocean. This process has made the oceans salty. The Great Lakes, on the other hand, are mostly fed by rainfall and rivers with low salt content, which is why they are not as salty as the oceans.
Are there salty lakes or seas?
yes there are salty seas. but lakes are very rare to find salty.
Why are lakes of the riftvalley salty?
These lakes tend to be salty, as minerals are constantly carried into them by incoming water.
Why is the The Great Salt Lake so salty?
The great salt lake is salty because there's no outlet so the lakes that run in it just build it up like when rocks go in the great salt lake the minerals come off and make it salty!!!!!
Is a lake salty or freshwater?
Most lakes are fresh water, though some lakes are saline. The Great Salt Lake in Utah is saltier than the ocean, as is Salton Sea in southern California and the Dead Sea in the middle east (the Dead Sea is nearly ten times more salty than the ocean).
Why are almost all the lakes in the great basin desert salty?
These lakes have no outlets to carry the salts away to the sea.
Does the desert have freshwater or saltwater?
Deserts can have fresh water but some of lakes that are salty, very salty.
Why aren't lakes salty?
Because people pee in the lakes and it kills the little sock particles.
Why aren't desert lakes salty?
Lakes in the desert receive their moisture from runoff of the desert which often contains dissolved salts. If the lake has no outlet by a river or stream, as the lake water evaporates it concentrates the salt content of the water.
