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On the origin and fate of the brines in the Dead Sea basin
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Ittai Gavrieli
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Ittai Gavrieli
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Geological Survey of Israel, 30 Malkhey Israel St., Jerusalem 95501, Israel
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Mordechai Stein
Mordechai Stein
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Geological Survey of Israel, 30 Malkhey Israel St., Jerusalem 95501, Israel
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Published:January 01, 2006
This paper summarizes the research efforts devoted over the years to the understanding of the origin and evolution of brines in the Dead Sea basin. These brines are characterized by a unique Ca-Chloride composition, which evolved from interaction of evaporated seawater filling the late Neogene Sedom lagoon with the Cretaceous carbonate rocks exposed at the basin-bounding escarpments. Following the disconnection of the lagoon from the open sea and the development of inland lakes, the composition of the ancient Sedom brine changed due to precipitation of evaporites and addition of salts from incoming fresh water. Relative to highly evaporated seawater, these...
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GSA Special Papers
New Frontiers in Dead Sea Paleoenvironmental Research
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401
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Geological Society of America
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9780813724010
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January 01, 2006
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- alkaline earth metals
- Asia
- brines
- calcium chloride
- carbonatization
- Cenozoic
- chemically precipitated rocks
- chlorides
- Dead Sea
- dolomitization
- evaporites
- geochemistry
- halides
- hydrochemistry
- hypersaline environment
- isotope ratios
- isotopes
- lacustrine environment
- Lake Lisan
- Lisan Formation
- lithostratigraphy
- metals
- Middle East
- Neogene
- paleoclimatology
- paleogeography
- paleohydrology
- paleolimnology
- Pleistocene
- Quaternary
- salt
- sedimentary rocks
- Sr-87/Sr-86
- stable isotopes
- strontium
- Tertiary
- upper Pleistocene
- water-rock interaction
- Dead Sea basin
- Sedom Formation
- Amora Formation
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