Assertion: seawater's salt content | /r/HasProperty | attained in short time intervals
Facets:
value: compared with earth’s age
type: OTHER
value: geologically
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: With increasing knowledge of the age of Earth, however, it was realized that, at the present-day rate of delivery of salts to the oceans or even at much reduced rates, the total salt content and the mass of individual salts in the oceans could be attained in geologically short time intervals compared with Earth’s age.