Subj: {OHG} About Salt  
Date: 8/14/2003 5:57:48 PM Eastern Daylight Time 
From: backwaterjon@yahoo.com 


Canning salt is also sea salt.  Salt is formed (like limestone is) in 
the bottom of salt water.  The deeper the salt water is, the tighter 
and more compact becomes the salt (limestone too).

Mom always said that canning salt was purer than sea salt now is due 
to sewage being dumped into the sea: due to drums of chemicals then 
carried far out to sea and dumped: not to mention the ships back then 
using the open sea to dump their scraps and sewage.

She mentioned that air pollution wasn't as great when earth salt was 
formed at the bottom of the then oceans.  And that certain purer 
strains of minerals would have been in THAT salt that may now not be.

So.  When thinking about salt: don't rule out canning salt cause you 
think it ain't from the sea, cause it is.  

Jon-who knows most every scrap of land was covered by the oceans at 
one time or another.  

You can find fossils at the tippy top of all known mountains.  And 
it's the dead bodies of crustaceous plus the calcium from bones that 
formed and still is forming limestone, chalk, and ag lime.

Jon's trivia for today.