num_pages: 298
description: Located 400 meters below sea level, at the tectonically active irregular boundary between the Mediterranean and Arabic plates, the Dead Sea is the site of many interesting phenomena. It provides a modern analog for ancient pull-apart basins and allows researchers to examine the process ofevaporite deposition from deep water. It also offers insight into the adaptive ability of the life form living in the hypersaline brine. This book, based on a conference held in Tel Aviv in December 1993, focuses on the geophysics, geochemistry, hydrology, and climatology of the Dead Searegion.
language: English
title: The Dead Sea: The Lake and Its Setting
titlecomplete: The Dead Sea: The Lake and Its Setting (Oxford Monographs on Geology and Geophysics, 36)
publisher: Oxford University Press