Dead Sea (English Wikipedia)

Smit, J.; Brun, J.-P.; Cloetingh, S.; Ben-Avraham, Z. (December 2008). "Pull-apart basin formation and development in narrow transform zones with application to the Dead Sea Basin" (PDF). Tectonics. 27 (6) 2007TC002119. Bibcode:2008Tecto..27.6018S. doi:10.1029/2007TC002119.
Shoval, S.; Zlatkin, Olga (2009). "Climatic changes during the Pliocene as observed from climate-sensitive rocks and clay minerals of the Sedom formation, the Dead Sea Basin". Clay Minerals. 44 (4): 469–486. Bibcode:2009ClMin..44..469S. doi:10.1180/claymin.2009.044.4.469.
Uri Kafri; Yoseph Yechieli (2010). Groundwater Base Level Changes and Adjoining Hydrological Systems. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 123. Bibcode:2010gblc.book.....K. ISBN 978-3-642-13944-4.
Ben-Avraham, Zvi; Katsman, Regina (2015). "The formation of graben morphology in the Dead Sea Fault, and its implications". Geophysical Research Letters. 42 (17). American Geophysical Union. 2.2. Sedimentary Regime, p. 6991 (of 6989–6996). Bibcode:2015GeoRL..42.6989B. doi:10.1002/2015GL065111. Estuarine-lagoonal series of syn-rift evaporites of the latest Miocene—Pliocene ages. Sedimentary regime and mineral composition indicate that .... the Sedom formation in the DSB [Dead Sea Basin] .... , consisting mainly of halite, can be related to ingression of sea waters .... through the Yezreel Valley inland into the Jordan-Arava rift valley (from the Sea of Galilee to the present-day Dead Sea....) in the Late Neogene. After its disconnection from the open sea that could be associated with either eustatic changes in the sea, tectonic uplift of Judea-Samaria anticline, or other processes [Stein, 2014], the rift valley was occupied by a series of hypersaline terminal lakes. They occasionally evaporated and precipitated halite. .... Restoration of the Sedom diapir to its original uniform thickness covering the basin floor yields 2.3 km.
Torfstein, Adi; Haase-Schramm, Alexandra; Waldmann, Nicolas; Kolodny, Yehoshua; Stein, Mordechai (May 2009). "U-series and oxygen isotope chronology of the mid-Pleistocene Lake Amora (Dead Sea basin)". Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 73 (9): 2603–2630. Bibcode:2009GeCoA..73.2603T. doi:10.1016/j.gca.2009.02.010.
Zech, Roland; Zech, Michael; Marković, Slobodan; Hambach, Ulrich; Huang, Yongsong (1 October 2013). "Humid glacials, arid interglacials? Critical thoughts on pedogenesis and paleoclimate based on multi-proxy analyses of the loess–paleosol sequence Crvenka, Northern Serbia". Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 387: 165–175. Bibcode:2013PPP...387..165Z. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2013.07.023.
Sorin, Lisker; Anton, Vaks; Miryam, Bar-Matthews; Roi, Porat; Amos, Frumkin (May 2010). "Late Pleistocene palaeoclimatic and palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of the Dead Sea area (Israel), based on speleothems and cave stromatolites". Quaternary Science Reviews. 29 (9–10): 1201–1211. Bibcode:2010QSRv...29.1201S. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.01.018.
Friend, J. Newton (June 1926). "Examination of Dead Sea Water for Eka-Cæsium and Eka-Iodine". Nature. 117 (2953): 789–790. Bibcode:1926Natur.117..789F. doi:10.1038/117789b0.
Steinhorn, Ilana (May 1983). "In situ salt precipitation at the Dead Sea". Limnology and Oceanography. 28 (3): 580–583. Bibcode:1983LimOc..28..580S. doi:10.4319/lo.1983.28.3.0580. INIST 9327311.
Bein, A.; Amit, O. (April 1980). "The evolution of the dead sea floating asphalt blocks: Simulations by pyrolysis". Journal of Petroleum Geology. 2 (4): 439–447. Bibcode:1980JPetG...2..439B. doi:10.1111/j.1747-5457.1980.tb00971.x.
Rullkötter, J.; Nissenbaum, A. (December 1988). "Dead sea asphalt in egyptian mummies: Molecular evidence". Naturwissenschaften. 75 (12): 618–621. Bibcode:1988NW.....75..618R. doi:10.1007/BF00366476. PMID 3237249.
Ionescu, Danny; Siebert, Christian; Polerecky, Lubos; Munwes, Yaniv Y.; Lott, Christian; Häusler, Stefan; Bižić-Ionescu, Mina; Quast, Christian; Peplies, Jörg; Glöckner, Frank Oliver; Ramette, Alban; Rödiger, Tino; Dittmar, Thorsten; Oren, Aharon; Geyer, Stefan; Stärk, Hans-Joachim; Sauter, Martin; Licha, Tobias; Laronne, Jonathan B.; De Beer, Dirk (2012). "Microbial and Chemical Characterization of Underwater Fresh Water Springs in the Dead Sea". PLOS ONE. 7 (6) e38319. Bibcode:2012PLoSO...738319I. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0038319. PMC 3367964. PMID 22679498.
Klein, C.; Flohn, H. (1987). "Contributions to the knowledge of the fluctuations of the Dead Sea level". Theoretical and Applied Climatology. 38 (3): 151–156. Bibcode:1987ThApC..38..151K. doi:10.1007/BF00868099. INIST 7617200.

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"Dead Sea Canal". American.edu. 9 December 1996. Archived from the original on 22 May 2009. Retrieved 5 May 2009.

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McColl, R W, ed. (2005). Encyclopedia of world geography. Facts on File. p. 237. ISBN 978-0-8160-7229-3. Archived from the original on 30 October 2023. Retrieved 10 November 2020.
David Bridger; Samuel Wolk (September 1976). The New Jewish Encyclopedia. Behrman House, Inc. p. 109. ISBN 978-0-87441-120-1. Archived from the original on 30 October 2023. Retrieved 25 July 2011. It was named the "Dead Sea" because of the fact that no living thing can exist there, since the water is extremely salty and bitter.
Morse, Jedidiah (1819), The American Universal Geography..., vol. 2 (7th ed.), Boston: Lincoln & Edmands, p. 458
Moshe Sharon (1999). Bani Na'im: Maqam an-Nabi Lut. Corpus Inscriptionum Arabicarum Palaestinae (CIAP). Vol. Two: B–C. Leiden, Boston, Cologne: Brill. p. 15 (of pp.12–21). ISBN 978-90-04-11083-0. Archived from the original on 30 October 2023. Retrieved 30 December 2019.
Dead Sea: Israel and Jordan. Vol. 1: A–E (14th ed.). Washington, D.C.: Cataloging Distribution Service, Library of Congress. 1991. p. 1163. Archived from the original on 30 October 2023. Retrieved 30 December 2019.
Uri Kafri; Yoseph Yechieli (2010). Groundwater Base Level Changes and Adjoining Hydrological Systems. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 123. Bibcode:2010gblc.book.....K. ISBN 978-3-642-13944-4.
Geochemical Society; Meteoritical Society (1971). Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. Pergamon Press. Archived from the original on 30 October 2023. Retrieved 12 April 2011.
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"Wealth From The Dead Sea". Popular Mechanics. Vol. 54, no. 5. Chicago: Hearst Magazines. November 1930. pp. 794–798. Archived from the original on 30 October 2023. Retrieved 28 September 2020.
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"מפלס ים המלח משנת 1976 (Dead Sea Level since 1976)". Government Data (Israel) (in Hebrew). Retrieved 11 March 2025.

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Smit, J.; Brun, J.-P.; Cloetingh, S.; Ben-Avraham, Z. (December 2008). "Pull-apart basin formation and development in narrow transform zones with application to the Dead Sea Basin" (PDF). Tectonics. 27 (6) 2007TC002119. Bibcode:2008Tecto..27.6018S. doi:10.1029/2007TC002119.
Shoval, S.; Zlatkin, Olga (2009). "Climatic changes during the Pliocene as observed from climate-sensitive rocks and clay minerals of the Sedom formation, the Dead Sea Basin". Clay Minerals. 44 (4): 469–486. Bibcode:2009ClMin..44..469S. doi:10.1180/claymin.2009.044.4.469.
Ben-Avraham, Zvi; Katsman, Regina (2015). "The formation of graben morphology in the Dead Sea Fault, and its implications". Geophysical Research Letters. 42 (17). American Geophysical Union. 2.2. Sedimentary Regime, p. 6991 (of 6989–6996). Bibcode:2015GeoRL..42.6989B. doi:10.1002/2015GL065111. Estuarine-lagoonal series of syn-rift evaporites of the latest Miocene—Pliocene ages. Sedimentary regime and mineral composition indicate that .... the Sedom formation in the DSB [Dead Sea Basin] .... , consisting mainly of halite, can be related to ingression of sea waters .... through the Yezreel Valley inland into the Jordan-Arava rift valley (from the Sea of Galilee to the present-day Dead Sea....) in the Late Neogene. After its disconnection from the open sea that could be associated with either eustatic changes in the sea, tectonic uplift of Judea-Samaria anticline, or other processes [Stein, 2014], the rift valley was occupied by a series of hypersaline terminal lakes. They occasionally evaporated and precipitated halite. .... Restoration of the Sedom diapir to its original uniform thickness covering the basin floor yields 2.3 km.
Torfstein, Adi; Haase-Schramm, Alexandra; Waldmann, Nicolas; Kolodny, Yehoshua; Stein, Mordechai (May 2009). "U-series and oxygen isotope chronology of the mid-Pleistocene Lake Amora (Dead Sea basin)". Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 73 (9): 2603–2630. Bibcode:2009GeCoA..73.2603T. doi:10.1016/j.gca.2009.02.010.
Zech, Roland; Zech, Michael; Marković, Slobodan; Hambach, Ulrich; Huang, Yongsong (1 October 2013). "Humid glacials, arid interglacials? Critical thoughts on pedogenesis and paleoclimate based on multi-proxy analyses of the loess–paleosol sequence Crvenka, Northern Serbia". Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 387: 165–175. Bibcode:2013PPP...387..165Z. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2013.07.023.
Sorin, Lisker; Anton, Vaks; Miryam, Bar-Matthews; Roi, Porat; Amos, Frumkin (May 2010). "Late Pleistocene palaeoclimatic and palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of the Dead Sea area (Israel), based on speleothems and cave stromatolites". Quaternary Science Reviews. 29 (9–10): 1201–1211. Bibcode:2010QSRv...29.1201S. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.01.018.
Kramer, Mordechai R.; Springer, Chaim; Berkman, Neville; Glazer, Mendel; Bublil, Milli; Bar-Yishay, Ephraim; Godfrey, Simon (March 1998). "Rehabilitation of Hypoxemic Patients With COPD at Low Altitude at the Dead Sea, the Lowest Place on Earth". Chest. 113 (3): 571–575. doi:10.1378/chest.113.3.571. PMID 9515826.
Friend, J. Newton (June 1926). "Examination of Dead Sea Water for Eka-Cæsium and Eka-Iodine". Nature. 117 (2953): 789–790. Bibcode:1926Natur.117..789F. doi:10.1038/117789b0.
Abu Ghazleh, Shahrazad; Abed, Abdulkader M.; Kempe, Stephan (2010). "The Dramatic Drop of the Dead Sea: Background, Rates, Impacts and Solutions". Macro-engineering Seawater in Unique Environments. Environmental Science and Engineering. pp. 77–105. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-14779-1_4. ISBN 978-3-642-14778-4.
Steinhorn, Ilana (May 1983). "In situ salt precipitation at the Dead Sea". Limnology and Oceanography. 28 (3): 580–583. Bibcode:1983LimOc..28..580S. doi:10.4319/lo.1983.28.3.0580. INIST 9327311.
Bein, A.; Amit, O. (April 1980). "The evolution of the dead sea floating asphalt blocks: Simulations by pyrolysis". Journal of Petroleum Geology. 2 (4): 439–447. Bibcode:1980JPetG...2..439B. doi:10.1111/j.1747-5457.1980.tb00971.x.
Rullkötter, J.; Nissenbaum, A. (December 1988). "Dead sea asphalt in egyptian mummies: Molecular evidence". Naturwissenschaften. 75 (12): 618–621. Bibcode:1988NW.....75..618R. doi:10.1007/BF00366476. PMID 3237249.
Leibovici, V.; Sagi, E.; Siladji, S.; Greiter, J.C.; Greiter, F.; Holubar, K. (1987). "Seasonal Variation of UV Radiation at the Dead Sea". Dermatology. 174 (6): 290–292. doi:10.1159/000249201. PMID 3622880.
Kudish, A. I.; Abels, D.; Harari, M. (2003). "Ultraviolet radiation properties as applied to photoclimatherapy at the Dead Sea". International Journal of Dermatology. 42 (5): 359–365. doi:10.1046/j.1365-4362.2003.01683.x. PMID 12755972.
Emmanuel, Thomas; Petersen, Annita; Houborg, Hannah Inez (August 2022). "Climatotherapy at the Dead Sea for psoriasis is a highly effective anti-inflammatory treatment in the short term: An immunohistochemical study". Experimental Dermatology. 31 (8): 1136–1144. doi:10.1111/exd.14549. PMC 9541097. PMID 35196397.
Friedman, Michael; Vidyasagar, Ramakrishnan; Joseph, Ninos (June 2006). "A Randomized, Prospective, Double-Blind Study on the Efficacy of Dead Sea Salt Nasal Irrigations". The Laryngoscope. 116 (6): 878–882. doi:10.1097/01.mlg.0000216798.10007.76. PMID 16735920.
Flusser, Daniel; Abu-Shakra, Mahmoud; Friger, Michael; Codish, Shlomi; Sukenik, Shaul (August 2002). "Therapy With Mud Compresses for Knee Osteoarthritis: Comparison of Natural Mud Preparations With Mineral-Depleted Mud". Journal of Clinical Rheumatology. 8 (4): 197–203. doi:10.1097/00124743-200208000-00003. PMID 17041359.
Ionescu, Danny; Siebert, Christian; Polerecky, Lubos; Munwes, Yaniv Y.; Lott, Christian; Häusler, Stefan; Bižić-Ionescu, Mina; Quast, Christian; Peplies, Jörg; Glöckner, Frank Oliver; Ramette, Alban; Rödiger, Tino; Dittmar, Thorsten; Oren, Aharon; Geyer, Stefan; Stärk, Hans-Joachim; Sauter, Martin; Licha, Tobias; Laronne, Jonathan B.; De Beer, Dirk (2012). "Microbial and Chemical Characterization of Underwater Fresh Water Springs in the Dead Sea". PLOS ONE. 7 (6) e38319. Bibcode:2012PLoSO...738319I. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0038319. PMC 3367964. PMID 22679498.
Schiffman, Lawrence H. (2012). "On the Edge of the Diaspora: Jews in the Dead Sea Region in the First Two Centuries C.E.". 'Go Out and Study the Land' (Judges 18:2). pp. 175–195. doi:10.1163/9789004214132_012. ISBN 978-90-04-21413-2.
Mashiach, Avraham; and Davidovich, Uri (2 January 2023). "The En-Gedi Spring Site and the Judahite Expansion into the Judaean Desert in the Late Iron Age". Tel Aviv. 50 (1): 11–14. doi:10.1080/03344355.2023.2190273. PMC 10273384. PMID 37333895.
Mashiach, Avraham; and Davidovich, Uri (2 January 2023). "The En-Gedi Spring Site and the Judahite Expansion into the Judaean Desert in the Late Iron Age". Tel Aviv. 50 (1): 38. doi:10.1080/03344355.2023.2190273. PMC 10273384. PMID 37333895.
Hammond, Philip C. (1959). "The Nabataean Bitumen Industry at the Dead Sea". The Biblical Archaeologist. 22 (2): 40–48. doi:10.2307/3209307. JSTOR 3209307.
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Steinhorn, Ilana (May 1983). "In situ salt precipitation at the Dead Sea". Limnology and Oceanography. 28 (3): 580–583. Bibcode:1983LimOc..28..580S. doi:10.4319/lo.1983.28.3.0580. INIST 9327311.
Klein, C.; Flohn, H. (1987). "Contributions to the knowledge of the fluctuations of the Dead Sea level". Theoretical and Applied Climatology. 38 (3): 151–156. Bibcode:1987ThApC..38..151K. doi:10.1007/BF00868099. INIST 7617200.

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Kramer, Mordechai R.; Springer, Chaim; Berkman, Neville; Glazer, Mendel; Bublil, Milli; Bar-Yishay, Ephraim; Godfrey, Simon (March 1998). "Rehabilitation of Hypoxemic Patients With COPD at Low Altitude at the Dead Sea, the Lowest Place on Earth". Chest. 113 (3): 571–575. doi:10.1378/chest.113.3.571. PMID 9515826.
Rullkötter, J.; Nissenbaum, A. (December 1988). "Dead sea asphalt in egyptian mummies: Molecular evidence". Naturwissenschaften. 75 (12): 618–621. Bibcode:1988NW.....75..618R. doi:10.1007/BF00366476. PMID 3237249.
Leibovici, V.; Sagi, E.; Siladji, S.; Greiter, J.C.; Greiter, F.; Holubar, K. (1987). "Seasonal Variation of UV Radiation at the Dead Sea". Dermatology. 174 (6): 290–292. doi:10.1159/000249201. PMID 3622880.
Kudish, A. I.; Abels, D.; Harari, M. (2003). "Ultraviolet radiation properties as applied to photoclimatherapy at the Dead Sea". International Journal of Dermatology. 42 (5): 359–365. doi:10.1046/j.1365-4362.2003.01683.x. PMID 12755972.
Emmanuel, Thomas; Petersen, Annita; Houborg, Hannah Inez (August 2022). "Climatotherapy at the Dead Sea for psoriasis is a highly effective anti-inflammatory treatment in the short term: An immunohistochemical study". Experimental Dermatology. 31 (8): 1136–1144. doi:10.1111/exd.14549. PMC 9541097. PMID 35196397.
Friedman, Michael; Vidyasagar, Ramakrishnan; Joseph, Ninos (June 2006). "A Randomized, Prospective, Double-Blind Study on the Efficacy of Dead Sea Salt Nasal Irrigations". The Laryngoscope. 116 (6): 878–882. doi:10.1097/01.mlg.0000216798.10007.76. PMID 16735920.
Flusser, Daniel; Abu-Shakra, Mahmoud; Friger, Michael; Codish, Shlomi; Sukenik, Shaul (August 2002). "Therapy With Mud Compresses for Knee Osteoarthritis: Comparison of Natural Mud Preparations With Mineral-Depleted Mud". Journal of Clinical Rheumatology. 8 (4): 197–203. doi:10.1097/00124743-200208000-00003. PMID 17041359.
Ionescu, Danny; Siebert, Christian; Polerecky, Lubos; Munwes, Yaniv Y.; Lott, Christian; Häusler, Stefan; Bižić-Ionescu, Mina; Quast, Christian; Peplies, Jörg; Glöckner, Frank Oliver; Ramette, Alban; Rödiger, Tino; Dittmar, Thorsten; Oren, Aharon; Geyer, Stefan; Stärk, Hans-Joachim; Sauter, Martin; Licha, Tobias; Laronne, Jonathan B.; De Beer, Dirk (2012). "Microbial and Chemical Characterization of Underwater Fresh Water Springs in the Dead Sea". PLOS ONE. 7 (6) e38319. Bibcode:2012PLoSO...738319I. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0038319. PMC 3367964. PMID 22679498.
Mashiach, Avraham; and Davidovich, Uri (2 January 2023). "The En-Gedi Spring Site and the Judahite Expansion into the Judaean Desert in the Late Iron Age". Tel Aviv. 50 (1): 11–14. doi:10.1080/03344355.2023.2190273. PMC 10273384. PMID 37333895.
Mashiach, Avraham; and Davidovich, Uri (2 January 2023). "The En-Gedi Spring Site and the Judahite Expansion into the Judaean Desert in the Late Iron Age". Tel Aviv. 50 (1): 38. doi:10.1080/03344355.2023.2190273. PMC 10273384. PMID 37333895.

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