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Line 54: In coastal areas fresh water may contain significant concentrations of salts derived from the sea if windy conditions have lifted drops of seawater into the rain-bearing clouds. This can give rise to elevated concentrations of [[sodium]], [[chloride]], [[magnesium]] and [[sulfate]] as well as many other compounds in smaller concentrations. In [[desert]] areas, or areas with impoverished or dusty soils, rain-bearing winds can pick up [[sand]] and [[dust]] and this can be deposited elsewhere in precipitation and causing the freshwater flow to be measurably contaminated both by insoluble solids but also by the soluble components of those soils. Significant quantities of [[iron]] may be transported in this way including the well-documented transfer of iron-rich rainfall falling in Brazil derived from sand-storms in the [[Sahara]] in [[north Africa]].{{citation needed|date=June 2021}}<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Rizzolo |first=Joana A. |last2=Barbosa |first2=Cybelli G. G. |last3=Borillo |first3=Guilherme C. |last4=Godoi |first4=Ana F. L. |last5=Souza |first5=Rodrigo A. F. |last6=Andreoli |first6=Rita V. |last7=Manzi |first7=Antônio O. |last8=Sá |first8=Marta O. |last9=Alves |first9=Eliane G. |last10=Pöhlker |first10=Christopher |last11=Angelis |first11=Isabella H. |last12=Ditas |first12=Florian |last13=Saturno |first13=Jorge |last14=Moran-Zuloaga |first14=Daniel |last15=Rizzo |first15=Luciana V. |date=22 February 2017 |title=Soluble iron nutrients in Saharan dust over the central Amazon rainforest |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/314247273_Soluble_iron_nutrients_in_Saharan_dust_over_the_central_Amazon_rainforest/link/58beb806458515dcd28e1ca0/download |journal=Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics |volume=17 |pages=2673–2687 |via=ResearchGate}}</ref>
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