Dead Sea
by Nicolas Waldmann, Department of Marine Geosciences, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
The hypersaline Dead Sea lake is shrinking at a rate of ~1m per year. Karstic sinkhole features develop in its abandoned shores.
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- Climate: Past, Present & Future (740)
- Geodynamics (371)
- Geomorphology (1399)
- Hydrological Sciences (682)
Location
- Asia (1116)
- Western Asia (316)
- Israel (46)
- Exact location (35.3975 E, 31.4885 N)
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Canon PowerShot SX210 IS
Taken on 3
May
2012
Submitted on 28 February 2016
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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0)
Credit
Nicolas Waldmann (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
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