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Dead Sea, Jordan
Dead Sea, Jordan. One of the most spectacular natural and spiritual landscapes in the whole world, the lowest point on earth, and the world's richest source ...
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Dead Sea at dawn (from Sodom mountain, Israel). Dead Sea at dusk (from Suwayma, Jordan). Sinkholes at Mineral Beach. Dead Sea from Masada ...
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The Dead Sea is a salt lake between Palestine and Israel to the west and Jordan to the east. At 420 metres below sea level, its shores are the lowest point ...
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Dead Sea Israel Jordan

The Dead Sea (Hebrew: יָם הַ‏‏מֶּ‏‏לַ‏ח‎, Yām Ha-Melaḥ, "Sea of Salt"; Arabic: البَحْر المَيّت‎, al-Baḥr El-Mayyit, "Dead Sea"), also called the Salt Sea, is a salt lake in Jordan to the east and in the West Bank and Israel to the west. Its surface and shores are 422 metres (1,385 ft) below sea level,[2] the lowest elevation on the Earth's surface on dry land. The Dead Sea is 378 m (1,240 ft) deep, the deepest hypersaline lake in the world. It is also one of the world's saltiest bodies of water, with 33.7% salinity. Only Lake Assal (Djibouti), Garabogazköl and some hypersaline lakes of the McMurdo Dry Valleys in Antarctica (such as Don Juan Pond and perhaps Lake Vanda) have a higher salinity. It is 8.6 times more salty than the ocean.[3] This salinity makes for a harsh environment where animals cannot flourish, hence its name. The Dead Sea is 67 kilometres (42 mi) long and 18 kilometres (11 mi) wide at its widest point. It lies in the Jordan Rift Valley, and its main tributary is the Jordan River.

The Dead Sea has attracted visitors from around the Mediterranean basin for thousands of years. Biblically, it was a place of refuge for King David. It was one of the world's first health resorts (for Herod the Great), and it has been the supplier of a wide variety of products, from balms for Egyptian mummification to potash for fertilizers. People also use the salt and the minerals from the Dead Sea to create cosmetics and herbal sachets.

The Dead Sea is an endorheic lake located in the Jordan Rift Valley, a geographic feature formed by the Dead Sea Transform (DST). This left lateral-moving transform fault lies along the tectonic plate boundary between the African Plate and the Arabian Plate. It runs between the East Anatolian Fault zone in Turkey and the northern end of the Red Sea Rift offshore of the southern tip of Sinai.

The Jordan River is the only major water source flowing into the Dead Sea, although there are small perennial springs under and around the Dead Sea, creating pools and quicksand pits along the edges.[6] There are no outlet streams.

Rainfall is scarcely 100 mm (3.9 in) per year in the northern part of the Dead Sea and barely 50 mm (2.0 in) in the southern part. The Dead Sea zone's aridity is due to the rainshadow effect of the Judean Hills. The highlands east of the Dead Sea receive more rainfall than the Dead Sea itself.

To the west of the Dead Sea, the Judean Hills rise less steeply, and are much lower, than the mountains to the east. Along the southwestern side of the lake is a 210 m (690 ft) tall halite formation called "Mount Sodom".

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The Dead Sea
The Dead Sea Salt crystals form on the shore of the Dead Sea creating an other-worldly landscape. You are here Major Attractions > The Dead Sea ...
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Northern Dead Sea; Ein Gedi; Ein Bokek. Jordan. [+] Camping. Israel and the West Bank. [+] Get Out. in Israel and the West Bank. The Dead Sea beachfront ...
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The Peace Canal: Israel-Jordan Project Aims to Save Dead Sea ...
5 Sep 2007 ... The Dead Sea is rapidly shrinking. Its coastlines are crumbling and its water is becoming too salty. Now Israel and Jordan plan to build a ...
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Israel and Jordan Launch Global Campaign to Save t
The decline of the Dead Sea was accelerated in large part because of the dire need for drinking water for the people of Jordan, Israel and the Palestinian ...
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GNF - The Dead Sea
Dead Sea. Israel, Jordan, Palestine. October 2008 - October 2010. Jordan River Rehabilitaion Project. Further information about the project, iis background ...
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Stench threatens new Israel-Jordan Dead Sea water project - The ...
Stench threatens new Israel-Jordan Dead Sea water project - Concrete planning work on a new Israeli-Jordanian project to pipe wate : Encyclopedia.com.
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BBC NEWS | Programmes | From Our Own Correspondent | Israel mourns
12 Sep 2009 ... Edward Stourton in Israel has found that the Dead Sea is now ... Israel, Jordan and the Palestinians - everyone wants a bit of Jordan water ...
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The Dead Sea: The Lake and Its Setting - by Tina M Niemi, Zvi Ben Avraham, Joel Gat - 306 pages
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