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==Geology== * [[Edmund Halley]] suggests using the salinity and evaporation of [[salt lake]]s to determine the [[age of the Earth]].<ref>"A Short Account of the Cause of the Saltness of the Ocean, and of the Several Lakes That Emit no Rivers; With a Proposal, by Help Thereof, to Discover the Age of the World". {{cite book|title=The Chronologers' Quest: The Search for the Age of the Earth|last=Jackson|first=Patrick Wyse|year=2006|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=0-521-81332-8|page=[https://archive.org/details/chronologersques00wyse/page/61 61]|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/chronologersques00wyse/page/61}}</ref>
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