Brett Aubrey  wrote or quoted:

> I've always assumed that a fresh water primal soup might
> allow presumably delicate first life more readily than salt
> water.  This assumption is mainly due to the purity of the
> source...  that is, since water is a necessity for life, the
> impurity of salt (, etc.?) might be just one more issue to
> hamper beginning life.  Can anyone out there comment
> (refute/confirm) that this makes some sense?
> (Or is  there no real way of even guessing at this?)

Quite a few OOL scenarios put the OOL on the ocean floor.

Others invoke evaporative tidal pools.

I'd say that the odds were that the water was pretty salty.
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