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The most peculiar lake in the world: The lake that does not drown

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The most peculiar lake in the world: The lake that does not drown

The world's most peculiar lake belongs to the Dead Sea, we grew up in the study of geography when we heard of this lake, which is called the Dead Sea because of the salt content of the seawater caused by the absence of many creatures inside, but it is not the world's most salty body of water, in front of it there are two lakes, just not as famous as it is. Aug 27, 2024

The history of the Dead Sea

The name of the Dead Sea can be found in the history of ancient books, its ancient times in Greece has appeared, whether the country's struggle, or the origin of the Bible, which has the company of the Dead Sea, its reason for being called the Dead Sea, because life is difficult to survive in it, because the salt content is too high, resulting in those creatures will die directly once they enter the Dead Sea, so people will call this lake the Dead Sea.

 

Location of the Dead Sea

The Dead Sea is located at the bottom of Israel, which is the northern part of the East African Rift Valley downward, is a land lake filled with a lot of salt, located in Israel, Palestine and Jordan between the bottom of the Jordan Valley, its east is the Jordanian plateau, the west is the Jewish mountains, water mainly from the Jordan River, every year will fill a lot of water into the Dead Sea, in addition to four small rivers to the Dead Sea inside the water, its with As with most lakes, the water level changes regularly. The Dead Sea is also the lowest point of the world's land mass.

The Dead Sea contains a lot of salt, mainly because its water contains a lot of minerals, and the water will continue to evaporate, the minerals will not, so the other side of the formation of today's salt lake, of course, want to form such water quality needs to meet the following two conditions, first of all, the temperature needs to be high enough, followed by not much precipitation, and these two points have met the Dead Sea, so it has become the third salt water lake.

The future of the Dead Sea is worrying, this is because its precipitation decreases year after year leading to the lake slowly becoming less and less salty, can meet its signs of drying up in the near future, so such a peculiar lake needs to be cared for by us humans. The Dead Sea is called the sea, but it is a lake, because the geography of the special environment so that we lie on it will not sink, this we know from the books as a child.

 

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