Timeline for What would an until-recently waterworld look like?
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| Jan 29, 2021 at 20:06 | comment | added | rek | @RobWatts The planet's young atmosphere would have been enough to make the oceans salty; erosion from land (and remember, this place had land for billions of years) just makes it saltier. | |
| Jan 29, 2021 at 17:49 | comment | added | Rob Watts | Ocean salt primarily comes from rocks on land - prior to the ocean levels being lowered, the water might be what we would think of as freshwater. | |
| Jan 29, 2021 at 14:33 | comment | added | Globin347 | I have since specified that a fair bit of water was left. The portal did not drain all the oceans. I apologize for the many edits; There were several factors I hadn't considered when I first wrote the question. | |
| Jan 29, 2021 at 14:24 | comment | added | rek | @VitalyDenisov Because 4 edits ago OP said the water drained away through a portal at the bottom of the ocean, which would leave small but very briny lakes, which would evaporate and quickly be lost to the crust. | |
| Jan 29, 2021 at 13:51 | comment | added | Vitaly Denisov | Why would normal water cycle stop? If there's enough water left it would rain and snow and rivers would flow and fresh water would gather into lakes. So in some time, I suppose it would form a normal soil similar to Earth soil. | |
| Jan 29, 2021 at 12:24 | comment | added | KeizerHarm | @Globin347 I don't think the change was that drastic. You can keep the question imho. | |
| Jan 29, 2021 at 7:12 | history | rollback | rek |
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| Jan 29, 2021 at 5:22 | comment | added | Globin347 | ...I hadn’t heard that before... in any case, should I just delete this question and write a new one? There are so many details That didn’t occur to me... Worst case scenario, I have to delete and re—create this question two or three times before I get it right. | |
| Jan 29, 2021 at 5:20 | history | edited | rek | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 29, 2021 at 5:17 | comment | added | rek | Making drastic changes to the question after answers have been given is frowned on, no? | |
| Jan 29, 2021 at 5:03 | comment | added | Globin347 | Fixed. Land plants are now briefly mentioned in the question. | |
| Jan 29, 2021 at 5:01 | comment | added | Christopher Hostage | The missing item is land plants. At the time of writing, the question mentions no plants for animals to eat. | |
| Jan 29, 2021 at 4:59 | comment | added | Globin347 | ...assume there is a decent amount of water left. I didn’t mean to imply it would all be gone. Is there a given period of time after which it would be feasible to bring in land plants? | |
| Jan 29, 2021 at 4:56 | history | answered | rek | CC BY-SA 4.0 |