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The average deposition rate of sea salt chloride over the world continents is about 10 meq m−2 yr−1. Only about 14 ± 1% of chloride in the pollution-corrected world average river is contributed by seasalt aerosols and the rest from the dissolution of evaporites. The significant increase of the ion concentrations in the Mississippi river from the year 1905 to 1987 was caused by anthropogenic inputs such as fossil fuel burning, common salt consumption, and dissolution of carbonate and silicate rocks by acids derived from acid precipitation.
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Li, YH. Seasalt and pollution inputs over the continental United States. Water Air Soil Pollut 64, 561–573 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00483366
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