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The Dead Sea – a unique global site

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 October 2001

ZVI BEN-AVRAHAM
ZVI BEN-AVRAHAM
Affiliation:
Department of Geophysics and Planetary Sciences, Tel Aviv University, PO Box 39040, Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv, 69978, Israel. E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

The Dead Sea area is unique in the sense that it is a natural laboratory in which key topics in several scientific disciplines can be studied in situ. Processes that take place during continental break-up, geochemistry and dynamics of the hypersaline Dead Sea water, paleoclimate and paleoseismic records in sediments and the survival mechanisms of halophilic micro-organisms are among the topics being studied there. Active tectonic processes control all aspects of the Dead Sea and have created an environment that has also influenced the course of human history.

Type
Research Article
Information
European Review , Volume 9 , Issue 4 , October 2001 , pp. 437 - 444
Copyright
© Academia Europaea 2001

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