Wouldn’t the mass glaciation result in higher salinity
in the remaining body of sea water?
Isn’t there some way to detect this ?
Interesting question. Tap water is <100 ppm (dissolved salts). Fresh water is <500. The Dead Sea is ~330,000ppm. We know there are many salt flats and mines that presumably arose from evaporated seas.
Would the glaciation occur as salt precipitates out of cooling water (which would not have as high of a carrying capacity) vs. evaporation. Warmer water should be able to hold more salt in solution. Hmmm..?
When sea water becomes supersaturated, salt would precipitate and fall to the bottom of the ocean.
Yes, that is true, but we can only extrapolate the salinity from the volume estimates of ancient data. That’s what the whole thread is about.