[Request] Is there more salt by volume in the oceans than land above sea level?
A common explanation for how why the oceans are salty is that all the salt from the land gets washed down to the ocean, and it concentrated there by evaporation.
I always thought this was silly because of how big the oceans are. Most of the surface of the earth is oceans, and most of the deep ocean is really deep, while most of the land isn't nearly as high. Surely a better explanation is that water on land is fresh because it gets purified by distillation.
But I was wondering if that really is true, and I started to do some back of the napkin math. But I'm pretty sure I completely messed it up because it was ridiculously high number that was probably off by several orders of magnitude.
So the question is this: if all the salt in the oceans were rock salt, would it be more or less than all of the crust above sea level by volume?
Bonus: if the amount of salt by mass were equalized between land and the ocean, how much higher would the land be on average?