Vertical salt layers, Mount Sodom
Mount Sodom is a salt dome near the Dead Sea, rising a few mm every year. The vertical salt layers are sometimes interspersed by clays and dolomites. The salt layers are of Miocene-Pliocene age.
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- Asia (1070)
- Western Asia (307)
- Israel (44)
- Exact location (35.3978 E, 31.0711 N)
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Nikon D40X
Software: Lightroom
Taken on 20
February
2009
Submitted on 11 February 2018
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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC 3.0)
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Neta Wechsler (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
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