Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Laut mati di arab


Basis of the lowest of the big gap in ground pot is the Dead Sea. The surface water of this lake is an average of 427 m below sea level, and the lowest base from the bottom of this lake is 433 m down again. Kr 72 km long lake and lebamya of steep canyons of Moab to the mountains of Judah, ranging from 10-14 km. On the west coast who are very narrow, confined by the region who bertangga-ladder, the rest of the coast of a bygone era. Except for one of two springs (eg 'Ain Fesykha and En-Gedi, compared with the Song of Solomon 1: 14), Judea coast is very dry and without vegetation. There are 4 small river empties into the lake who is on the east, namely: River Moyin (Ammon), Zerka River Main, and the Kerak River Zered River.

Evaporation rate is very high (in the summer temperatures reach 110 °), so the influx of river water-and S Jordan river into the lake is just an additive that line the lake surface was fixed. Rainfall a year to approximately 50 mm. Yg dense vegetation around the mouth of the river or at places where there is fresh water. Of oases, where the presence of fresh water, about crust and Zered River delta, obviously, how subumya pot soil (compare Genesis 13: 10), as apparent to the prophet Ezekiel in a vision of freshwater rivers, which flow from Jerusalem to make fresh water into the Salt Sea (Ezekiel 47:8-12).

Until the mid-19th century this lake can be lived (because of shallowness) walk from the Oral ('tongue'), which is protruding from the side of the peninsula who crust, as far as about 3 km near the edge of the shore. Traces of Roman roads still exist. Masada, a fortress that almost shellac can be conquered, which was built by the Maccabees and Herod, mengawasijalan in Judaea. To the south of the Oral, the lake was very shallow, and eventually turned into a salt marsh (Zephaniah 2:9) called Sebkha.

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