Dead Sea - why is it called so?

The deep depressions SUSHI Dead Sea - why is it called so? It sounds a little scary, is not it? The name "Dead Sea", in fact, represents a kinder, softer version of the Hebrew translation of the name «Yam ha Maved», meaning "sea-killer." The surface of the Dead Sea is 400 meters (1300 feet) below sea level. The very bottom of this unique body of water, its deepest part, is on the mark more than 700 meters (2300 feet) below sea level. Dead Sea water is related to one of the most salt on the ground: approximately 35% water in it - dissolved salts! The Dead Sea is completely surrounded by land, as the depth increases and the salt content in it. The surface of the reservoir, fed by the Jordan River, the least salty. At a depth of about 40 meters (130 feet) in 1 kg of sea water contains about 300 grams of salt. It is almost ten times the salinity of the oceans. Below 90 meters (300 feet), however, the sea has 332 grams of salt per 1 kg of seawater. This is already a saturated solution, so the salt is precipitated and accumulates on the seabed. Salt deposits in the Dead Sea Neither fish nor floating or creeping establishment of any kind can not live in such water, and even on the beach. Nevertheless, there are several species of bacteria and one species of algae adapted to the harsh life in the Dead Sea. All that you can see on the beach - white is the salt crystals that cover absolutely everything. And this is in no way an ordinary table salt. Salts found in the Dead Sea are mineral salts, such as those contained in the water world's oceans, only in the incredible concentration. Dead Sea water kills most living creatures. Fish, swim randomly in his water from a source of fresh water, feeding the sea, immediately killed, her body was quickly covered with a preserving layer of salt crystals, and then the wind and the waves throw him to the shore. Cruel! Dead Sea on the map people, unlike fish, we can be in the water from the Dead Sea. Stop and say surprise the reader, because the Dead Sea detrimental effect on all living things, so its water needs to be very dangerous! "Not for us. People have an amazing adaptability. We can swim in the Dead Sea in the same way as in the ocean. However, in reality, people do not "swim" in the Dead Sea - they are there just "hang out". That is what is most startling in the Dead Sea. Due to the extremely high concentration in the water of dissolved mineral salts, and its density is much higher density of ordinary drinking water. This means that our bodies have a much more buoyant in the Dead Sea - so you rocking on the waves as a float. Buoyancy in such water is so high that if a person wants to swim, it will be very difficult to do it. Most people really like just wallow, they may be even read. From the outside it looks as if a man is sitting on an inflatable mattress, which sank below the water surface, and the "resting" - no. He, in fact, just hover without any need to keep yourself on the surface due to any movements! If you think that it's easy, try to repeat the same in the pool with fresh water. What caused the formation of the Dead Sea? This question returns us to the theme of tectonics platforms. In this part of the world is a cleft formed in a divergence of the two platforms of the crust. East Valley Cleft passes through most of Africa, it starts in the north of the Dead Sea and runs south along the eastern part of the continent. Sea is located directly along the Valley of the crevice, where the stretched crust became thinner. The beach season in full swing to get an idea of ??how it happens "crustal extension, take a tile or a similar butterscotch candy and try to break it. You will see that in the place where the candy starts to burst, just before the break, it gets really thin. The same thing happens with the Earth's crust in the Valley of the crevices. In place of thinning the earth's crust, this part of the surface goes down. Amazing fact is that the Dead Sea continues to drop even lower, even in our days. Scientists estimate that the surface of the reservoir is lowered by almost 33 cm (13 inches) per year. According to geological time scale, it is incredibly fast! Why the Dead Sea is salty? Why the level of the sea surface is so low, the reader is already clear. However, there is a second interesting question is why water in the Dead Sea so salty? To paraphrase the adage that all roads lead to Rome, then we can say that in this area all rivers lead to the sea. The Dead Sea is constantly receives water from all rivers and streams flowing down from the surrounding mountains. But what is a trap ... no river does not flow from the Dead Sea. You can lie on the water without making any effort only way water can get out of the sea - is evaporating. And naturally, it evaporates, and very intensely, because in this part of world is extremely hot. When the water turns to steam at sea are all dissolved minerals in it, and it becomes more salty. In fact, the high concentration of salt in water from the Dead Sea - is the result of the double effect of two factors: the constant evaporation and replenishment of the Sea mineral salts, which brings river. The fact that water does not drain out of the sea, leads to the retention of salts within its shores. See also: Land Basin biggest edifice that was built on the planet living beings ... It flows from the rocks water ordinary record of a tsunami wave height Desert-record the largest lake in the world based on the volume and surface area record highs over the world have a rival Everest! 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