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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.