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The Dead Sea's main, northern basin is 50 kilometres (31 mi) long and 15 kilometres (9 mi) wide at its widest point. [1] The Dead Sea has attracted visitors from around the Mediterranean Basin for thousands of years.
The basin also has a very low heat flow compared to other strike-slip faults like the San Andreas Fault. A hypothesis of why the Dead Sea basin has unique earthquake locations, earthquake depths, and a lower heat flow is the "drop-down" or damage rheology hypothesis. [17]
Famous localities for continental pull-apart basins are the Dead Sea, the Salton Sea, and the Sea of Marmara. [1] Pull-apart basins are amenable to research because sediments deposited in the basin provide a timeline of activity along the fault.
From the Gulf of Aqaba northward, the land gradually rises over a distance of 77 km (48 mi), and reaches a height of 230 m (750 ft) above sea level, which represents the watershed divide between the Dead Sea and the Red Sea. From this crest, the land slopes gently northward over the next 74 km (46 mi) to a point 15 km (9.3 mi) south of the Dead ...
The Mujib Reserve of Wadi Mujib is located in the mountainous landscape to the east of the Dead Sea, in the southern part of Jordan valley, approximately 90 kilometres (56 mi) south of Amman. A 212 km 2 (82 sq mi) reserve was created in 1987 by the Royal Society for the Conservation of Nature and is regionally and internationally important ...
Dead Sea (27 P) J. Jordan River basin (5 C, 15 P) Q. Qumran (1 C, 19 P) Pages in category "Dead Sea basin" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total.
After passing the evaporation ponds, it drains into the Dead Sea [3] parallel to the brine drain channel. [4] After the Dead Sea basin was severed into the northern and southern parts, the area between them turned into dry seabed. It is a dangerous area due to sinkholes and land mines, and the entrance there is prohibited. [4]
The waters of Wadi al-Hasa feed the Dead Sea; in winter they accumulate in the southern part [dubious – discuss] of the Dead Sea. The area of the wadi's drainage basin is approximately 2,500 km 2 (970 sq mi). The wadi collects its waters from the desert wadis and streams whose basins reach the al-Jafr region to the east, and then flow down to ...