Bingham Bulletin | 1949-04-22 | Page 7 | Salt-Rock Left by Ancient Salty Seas

Salt-Rock Left by Ancient Salty Seas Ordinary sea water contains about 2.7 per cent common salt. However, some seas are saltier than others, particularly smaller seas which have no outlet for example, ex-ample, the Dead sea in Palestine contains no less than 24.5 er cent salt, and the Great Salt lake in Utah. Large deposits of salt-rock give evidence that some such lakes dried up in pre-historic eons and left tons of salt buried in the earth. In Strassfurt, Germany, the rock-salt rock-salt deposits range in depth from one-half to one mile thick; at Wie-lieska, Wie-lieska, in Austria, the deposits are 500 miles long, 20 miles wide, and have an average depth of 1,200 feet.