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FOUR years ago I directed attention to a Lake (Rørholtfjorden, part of Lake Tokke, in southern Norway) with trapped sea-water1. The surface altitude of that Lake is 60 m. above sea-level, and the estimated age of its bottom waters some 6,000 years, that is, of the marine salts contained in them; the present bottom waters probably possessing one-half of the salinity of those originally isolated.
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Strøm, K., Nature, 180, 982 (1957).
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STRØM, K. A Second Lake with Old Sea-Water at its Bottom. Nature 189, 913 (1961). https://doi.org/10.1038/189913a0
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