gaet'ale pond is the saltiest body of water on earth.
gaet'ale pond is the saltiest body of water on earth.
what is the saltiest body of water on earth?
gaet'ale pond
don juan pond is a small and very shallow hypersaline lake in the western end of wright valley (south fork), victoria land, antarctica, west from lake vanda. it is wedged between the asgard range to the south and the dais range to the north. on the west end is a small tributary and a rock glacier. with a salinity level of 33.8%, don juan pond is the saltiest of the antarctic lakes and the second saltiest body of water on earth behind the gaet'ale pond this salinity allows the pond to remain liquid even at temperatures as low as due to the interference of salts with the bonding of water molecules.
don juan pond
because the bay is an estuary, it has fresh water, salt water and brackish water. brackish water has three salinity zones: oligohaline, mesohaline, and polyhaline. the freshwater zone runs from the mouth of the susquehanna river to north baltimore. the oligohaline zone has very little salt. salinity varies from 0.5 ppt (parts per thousand) to 10 ppt, and freshwater species can survive there. the north end of the oligohaline zone is north baltimore and the south end is the chesapeake bay bridge. the mesohaline zone has a medium amount of salt and runs from the bay bridge to the mouth of the rappahannock river. salinity there ranges from 10.7 ppt to 18 ppt. the polyhaline zone is the saltiest zone, and some of the water can be as salty as sea water. it runs from the mouth of the rappahannock river to the mouth of the bay. the salinity ranges from 18.7 ppt to 36 ppt. (36 ppt is as salty as the ocean.)
chesapeake bay