born july 9 1976 in chicago illinois fred savage is best known for his role as kevin arnold in the american television series the wonder years 1988 93 though his career began at age 9 savage still managed to squeeze in graduating from stanford university in 1999 with a bachelor s in english
Sea water is salty because it contains large amounts of the salt Sodium Chloride. Salts are brought to the sea through many sources like rivers and streams which collect various minerals, salts and silt on their course and drain them into the oceans.
In this way, over hundreds of millions of years the ocean has been gradually becoming more salty. Now, the second part of the answer has to do with how salt gets into the rivers. It comes from disintegrating rock, like the granite that makes up the Sierra Nevada, and from volcanic eruptions.