Tinted detail of a photo: Weathered limestone cliff built of hundreds of thin stacked layers like a pile of pancakes, grey at the top and orange-brown below, with a small dark pool in a hollow.
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Climate: Past, Present & Future

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Dead Sea – lively stories of the past

Dead Sea – lively stories of the past

The Dead Sea is dead. Nothing can live there except for specialized microbes. The water with a salinity multiple times higher than seawater prevents a colonization by higher life forms. However, it does not prevent the input of organic material that can tell us stories about the past. A unique sediment record The Dead Sea, …[Read More]