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IV. On the Geology and Physical Features of the Valley of the Jordan, the Dead Sea, and the adjacent Districts
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 May 2009
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Many travellers have spoken of the numerous traces of volcanic acrion to be found in the neighbourhood of the Dead Sea; but the author states that he invariably found the ‘lava-currents ’ of M. de Saulcy to be nothing more than deposits of silica and nodules of oxide of iron, while his ‘extinct craters’ proved to be the flat summits of limestone-hills.
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