Sunday, October 08, 2006

"THE LOWEST ELEVETION ON EARTH"

Location: The Dead Sea is located in the Middle East, between Jordan and Israel.
It's called the Dead Sea because nothing lives in it but with tons of tons of crystal formation of salt(mineral salt). It is some of the saltiest water anywhere in the world, almost six times as salty as the ocean! The Dead Sea is completely landlocked and it gets saltier with increasing depth.
Facts: The surface of the Dead Sea is over 1,300 feet below sea level. The very bottom of the sea, in the deepest part, is over 2,300 feet below sea level. The Dead Sea has some of the most saline water on earth; as much as 35% of the water is dissolved salts!

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