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Article: Dead Sea is not undergoing revolution

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JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH
Jerusalem Post
12-01-1996
I heard that there has been a kind of "revolution" in the waters of the Dead Sea, in which the bottom layers have come to the top, and the top layers have sunk to the bottom. Is this true? When and how did it happen? What are the implications for the Dead Sea? Melvin, Jerusalem.

Dr. Ittai Gavrieli, a geologist at the Israel Geological Survey in Jerusalem, replies:

The layers of the Dead Sea do not switch places, but from time to time, because of climatic and water-supply conditions, the denser layers on the bottom and less-dense layers on the top mix together (or homogenize). We at the Geological Survey, and Dr. David Anati and his colleagues ...

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