How did saltwater lakes form?

First, we need to understand why the oceans are salty. So basically, we have these fresh water rivers that continuously empty into the oceans. These rivers also deposit small amounts of sediments into the oceans along with water. read more

Saltwater Lakes are indirectly connected to the oceans through the water cycle.Rain replenishes and refills these water resources and this rain water comes from the oceans. Rainwater is one of the major source of freshwater.When it percolates through rocks and soil,minerals present in the earths crust gets dissolved in it.But this concentration is negligible and it doesnt taste salty. read more

Salt lakes form when the water flowing into the lake, containing salt or minerals, cannot leave because the lake is endorheic (terminal). The water then evaporates, leaving behind any dissolved salts and thus increasing its salinity, making a salt lake an excellent place for salt production. read more

The Great Salt Lake is the largest of the lake remnants of prehistoric freshwater Lake Bonneville, the others being Bear Lake, on the Utah-Idaho border, and Utah Lake, west of Provo, Utah. Formed late in the Pleistocene Epoch about 30,000 years ago, Lake Bonneville at high water covered almost 20,000 square miles (52,000 square km) of present-day western Utah and also extended into modern Nevada and Idaho. read more

While the water evaporates from the lake, the salt remains. Eventually, the body of water will become brine. Because of the density of brine, swimmers are more buoyant in brine than in fresh or ordinary salt water. Examples of such brine lakes are the Dead Sea and the Great Salt Lake. Bodies of brine may also form on the ocean floor at cold seeps. read more