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The Geology of Jebel Usdum, Dead Sea
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 May 2009
Summary
The salt of Jebel Usdum is not a product of the Pleistocene Dead Sea, nor of the lake which preceded it (in ? Pliocene time), the waters of which were fresh for a long period and deposited sediments, with a maximum thickness of 1,000 feet or more, which are younger than the salt.
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page 369 note 1 A stronger tradition seems to attach Lot's name to pinnacles of calcsinter which have been formed along the eastern rift-fault, on the Transjordan side, some distance south of Wadi Mojib. These are called Mart Lut, Bint Lut, and Kelb Lut (Lot's Wife, Daughter, and Dog).
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page 372 note 3 H. Muir-Wood, “Jurassic Brachiopoda from the Jordan Valley”: ibid., xv, 1925, 181–92. The collections described in these papers by King, Cox, and Muir-Wood were all made by the writer and his colleagues, K. A. Campbell and George M. Lees.
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