> This question arises from
> research in the Salton Sea in California, USA. This sea is man-made
> accident (early 1900's) and currently has a salinity of about 47 and rising.
The terraformers get it wrong again. For background there is a recent item
in Science:
Kaiser, J. 1999. Battle over a dying sea. Science, 284 (2 April) :28-30.
Also a web page:
http://www.sci.sdsu.edu/salton/SaltonSeaHomePage.html
However that is a minor problem compared with the scale of the Aral Sea
disaster:
Stone, R. 1999. Coming to grips with the Aral Sea's grim legacy.
Science, 284 (2 April) :30-33.
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