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    if you want to simmer

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    and one of your friends ask you to try floating in a swimming pool,

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    chances are you'll find yourself sinking to the bottom before you know it.

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    Now, what if you try this in the Dead sea,

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    you'll find that no matter what kind of adjustments you make,

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    your bodies will be pushed up to the surface of the water.

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    That's right. Your body will automatically float, no matter your body weight.

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    This is just what makes the dead sea so unique.

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    This lake has many minerals such as salt, magnesium and calcium,

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    which benefits the person's skin and health.

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    Additionally, it causes the lake to be so dense that our bodies just floating it.

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    Well, what exactly is the Dead Sea

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    despite its name? The Dead Sea isn't A. C.

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    But the salt lake situated in the Dead Sea basin

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    ordered by Jordan to the east and issued to the west.

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    The basin is part of the Jordan rift valley,

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    a transform boundary between the Arabian and African plates.

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    Looking closer is formed from the boundary between the Arabian and

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    the scene I sub plate at around 15 million years ago.

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    Geographical physiology here varies considerably

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    with both convergence and divergence actions

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    controlled by the eastern and western strands of the african Arabian.

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    Strike slip thoughts.

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    The trends pull apart with isolated some basins developing between them,

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    the basins merged to form a bigger pull apart basin called the Dead sea basin,

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    with its high density owing to the high concentrations of minerals.

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    This is only possible through a long period of mineral transfer.

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    More precisely, we have to look back to the Pleistocene Age

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    in the Pleistocene Age, when the Jordan Valley first formed,

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    it was connected to the Mediterranean sea.

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    By the valley of Jezreel

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    Sea water was channeled into the Jordan River Valley,

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    depositing tons of evaporates.

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    Hey lights and protect themselves into the deposition

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    of basin known as the Dead Sea basin.

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    The basic experienced high rates of evaporation and mineral build up due to

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    the transport of heat from the equator to the north atlantic ocean,

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    subsequently warming the mediterranean region where the basin is situated,

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    The valley of Jezreel was uplifted in one M. A.

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    And without the constant input of water and the environment,

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    the lake shank creating Lake Nissan.

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    This shrinkage exposed sedimentary headlights in the

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    basin walls that were weathered and eroded,

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    releasing salt and minerals that run off by the surface.

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    Flow into the lake,

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    the transition to the Holocene epoch, so its latest glacial maximum,

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    Meaning that global temperatures increased while lately,

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    some quickly decreased in size and shore levels up to 70 m,

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    leaving the relatively smallest and densest lake remaining.

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    The dead sea that we know of today.