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After readingthis question about the origin of NaCl on Earth,我在想:怎么得这么氯化钠的量p historically? Is it a more or less linear growth until today? Was it such a linear growth and then reached a level that it maintains until now? Or was that more complex over the billions of years of Earth's existence?

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    Here is a graph describing modern estimates of ocean salinity throughout the Phanerozoic (past ~550 million years).Salinity from Hay et al., 2006The original PDF of this study can be found here:

    Hay, W.W., Migdisov, A., Balukhovsky, A.N., Wold, C.N., Flögel, S. and Söding, E., 2006. Evaporites and the salinity of the ocean during the Phanerozoic: Implications for climate, ocean circulation and life. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 240(1-2), pp.3-46.

    As this graph shows, it is not linear at all and actually decreasing since the end of the Precambrian. This is a result of many factors including changing volume of ocean water, and the global chloride cycle. The details are all described in that paper.

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