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Article: Dead sea rate of evaporation.(Report)
- Article from:
- American Journal of Applied Sciences
- Article date:
- August 1, 2008
- Author:
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INTRODUCTION
Dead Sea is a terminal lake of the Jordan Rift Valley bounded on the east by Jordan and on the west by the West Bank and Israel Fig. 1. The Dead Sea is the lowest point on the surface of the earth, and its waters have the highest density and salinity of any sea in the world. Dead Sea, for centuries, has been receiving the waters of the Jordan River, wadies, and the springs but due to evaporation very slowly concentrating the salts into what has become one of the greatest mineral reservoirs known to man (1). The level of the Dead Sea has been declining since the beginning of the century (2).
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