Dead Sea
The highest point of the earth’s surface is the top of Mount Evereste, which rises more than 8,800 meters above sea level. But what is the lowest point on land – and how did you get to this point?
The lowest point on earth is in Dead Seain the Middle East.
According to the Ocean and Atmospheric National Administration (NOAA), the margins of this extremely salty sea are about 430 meters below sea level.
Still, although the banks of the dead sea are the lowest point on land, They are not the deepest point of the earth’s surface.
This distinction belongs to the Challenger Deep In the Marian pit, A point in the Pacific Ocean that reaches about 10,935 m below the planet’s surface.
The exact depth of the dead sea surface may vary daily. According to NASA, on a hot and dry summer day, the water level can go down to 1 inch (2 to 3 centimeters) due to evaporation.
The dead sea, which is not really a sea, but a large saltwater lake. It is 76 kilometers (km) long and up to 18 km wide.
As NOAA writes, the name “Dead Sea” was given by monks, who noticed that the Life seemed to be absent from saltwater.
Previously, the investigators suggested that the Dead Sea formed essentially due to a zigzag in the dead sea failure. If the dead sea failure were perfectly straight, one side could slide relatively right next to the other.
However, if the flaw had a zigzag, as one side slid on the other, a gap would be formed in the zigzag area, where both sides of the failure were separating.
This “separation basin” could have steep walls, helping to explain why the dead sea has such a low elevation, explained RobberyAssociate Marine Research Scientist at the University of Rhode Island, Live Science.
However, the standard model of the pull-apart basins suggests that they become long before they become deep.
In contrast, the Dead Sea Basin is significantly wider than deep, Live Science told Marine geophysic Zvi Ben-AvrahamDirector of the Minerva Dead Sea Research Center at Tel Aviv University in Israel.
The sediment that makes up the bottom of the Dead Sea “extends for about 15 kilometers, and this part of the basin is only about 10 kilometers wide.”
“Facio de Caa”
Instead, Ben-Adraham and his colleagues suggest that the dead sea is a “Fall Basin”.
As the two sides of the failure slid on each other, they spread a little, “but then an isolated piece of basalt separated from them and came down from about 4 million years ago,” said Ben-Avraham.
“Thus, the Dead Sea Basin became deeper, while their other dimensions were fixed.”
