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Short video about the Dead Sea from the Israeli News Company. The Dead Sea (Arabic: اَلْبَحْر الْمَيِّت, romanized: al-Baḥr al-Mayyit, or اَلْبَحْر الْمَيْت, al-Baḥr al-Mayt; Hebrew: יַם הַמֶּלַח, romanized: Yam hamMelaḥ), also known by other names, is a landlocked salt lake bordered by Jordan to the east, the Israeli-occupied West Bank to ...
Therefore, mean depth figures are not available for many deep lakes in remote locations. [9] The average lake on Earth has the mean depth 41.8 meters (137.14 feet) [9] The Caspian Sea ranks much further down the list on mean depth, as it has a large continental shelf (significantly larger than the oceanic basin that contains its greatest depths).
Dead Sea: salt lake: Israel, Jordan, Palestine [7] 32.4: Lake Tuz (Tuz Gölü) salt lake: Turkey [8] 31.7: Great Salt Lake, North Arm: salt lake: Great Basin, Utah ...
It is the lowest freshwater lake on Earth and the second-lowest lake in the world (after the Dead Sea, a salt lake), [3] with its elevation fluctuating between 215 and 209 metres (705 and 686 ft) below sea level (depending on rainfall). [4] It is approximately 53 km (33 mi) in circumference, about 21 km (13 mi) long, and 13 km (8.1 mi) wide.
For comparison, the average salinity of the world ocean is 3.5% (35 parts per thousand) [49] and that of the Dead Sea is 33.7%. The ionic composition is similar to seawater, much more so than the Dead Sea's water; compared to the ocean, the Great Salt Lake's waters are slightly enriched in potassium and depleted in calcium. [40]
Lake Assal is the most saline body of water on earth after Don Juan Pond with 34.8% average salt concentration [10] (up to 40% at 20 m (66 ft) depth); higher than the 33.7% level in the Dead Sea. [10] [16] The dissolved salts include NaCl, KCl, MgCl 2, CaCl 2, CaSO 4 and MgBr 2, with NaCl dominating in Lake Assal and MgCl 2 in the Dead Sea. The ...
The Caspian Sea is the world's largest inland body of water, described as the world's largest lake and usually referred to as a full-fledged sea. [2] [3] [4] An endorheic basin, it lies between Europe and Asia: east of the Caucasus, west of the broad steppe of Central Asia, south of the fertile plains of Southern Russia in Eastern Europe, and north of the mountainous Iranian Plateau.
The salt content of the water (180 g/L) [3] gives it a salinity about half of that of the Dead Sea (300-400 ppt), allowing bathers to float easily. The lake falls within the Lanigan-Manitou Sub-basin of the Upper Qu'Appelle watershed. [5] There is no fishing as the high salt content of the water supports little other than brine shrimp.