Scientists unearth ancient water in Virginia

I was only able to read the first page of the full article thanks to Readcube, but I see they checked the thermal history to figure out if evaporation via steam could account for the higher salinity and came to the result that no, it didn’t. Did they also check for porosity in the surrounding strata to verify that some of the H2O didn’t wick away over time (with pores too small for the salt crystals to pass through)?

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