Dead Sea: References & Edit History
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Additional Reading
Barbara Kreiger, Living Waters: Myth, History, and Politics of the Dead Sea (1988, reissued as The Dead Sea: Myth, History, and Politics, 1997); and Haim Goren, Dead Sea Level: Science, Exploration, and Imperial Interests in the Near East (2011), explore the sea’s natural history, political history, exploration, and use. Geologic information can be found in Zvi Garfunkel, Zvi Ben-Avraham, and Elisa Kagan (eds.), Dead Sea Transform Fault System: Reviews (2014); and Tina M. Niemi, Zvi Ben-Avraham, and Joel R. Gat (eds.), The Dead Sea: The Lake and Its Setting (1997). David Neev and K.O. Emery, The Dead Sea: Depositional Processes and Environments of Evaporites (1967), analyzes the hydrology and climatology of the area, as does their The Destruction of Sodom, Gomorrah, and Jericho: Geological, Climatological, and Archaeolgical Background (1995). A useful bibliography is V. Arad et al., The Dead Sea and Its Surroundings: Geological and Limnological Research, 2nd ed. (1998).
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Article History
| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
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| Modified link of Web site: IOPscience - IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering - The Dead Sea Mud and Salt: A Review of Its Characterization, Contaminants, and Beneficial Effects. | Sep 17, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: CNN travel - The Dead Sea is drying out. | Jan 05, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: CORE - Geometry and subsidence history of the Dead Sea basin: A case for fluid-induced mid-crustal shear zone? (PDF). | Nov 28, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: IOPscience - IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering - The Dead Sea Mud and Salt: A Review of Its Characterization, Contaminants, and Beneficial Effects. | Aug 25, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - Microbial communities in the Dead Sea and their potential biotechnological applications. | Jun 10, 2025 | ||
| Questions and answers added. | Mar 18, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: EGU - Hydrology and Earth System Sciences - Exposure of tourism development to salt karst hazards along the Jordanian Dead Sea shore. | Oct 01, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: BBC News - Dead Sea drying: A new low-point for Earth. | Jun 24, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Global Nature Fund - The Dead Sea. | Apr 19, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: McClintock and Strong Biblical Cyclopedia - Dead Sea. | Dec 04, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Academia - The Dead Sea ? an economic resource for 10 000 years. | Jul 07, 2023 | ||
| Added a cross-reference to salinity. | Apr 13, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: JewishEncyclopedia.com - Dead Sea. | Apr 01, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Lakepedia - The Dead Sea: The Lowest Place on Earth. | Oct 25, 2022 | ||
| Add new Web site: Learn Religions - The Dead Sea and Its Importance in Islamic Tradition. | Apr 01, 2022 | ||
| Removed media. | Oct 06, 2021 | ||
| Corrected display issue. | Mar 02, 2021 | ||
| Added cross-references. | Oct 15, 2020 | ||
| Media added. | Aug 28, 2019 | ||
| Add new Web site: Jewish Virtual Library - The Dead Sea. | Jan 17, 2019 | ||
| Add new Web site: LiveScience - Why Is the Dead Sea So Salty? | May 03, 2017 | ||
| Corrected display issue. | Feb 16, 2017 | ||
| Media added. | Jan 21, 2016 | ||
| Bibliography revised and updated. | Jan 21, 2016 | ||
| Article thoroughly revised and updated. | Jan 21, 2016 | ||
| Add new Web site: Lonely Planet - Dead Sea, Middle East. | Jan 23, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: Jewish Virtual Library - Dead Sea. | Jan 18, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: Isarel Ministry of Tourism - Dead Sea. | Jan 18, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Catholic Encyclopedia - Dead Sea. | Jan 18, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: Maps of World - Dead Sea. | Jan 18, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: JewishEncyclopedia.com - Dead Sea. | Jan 18, 2013 | ||
| Added two photographs of salt deposits on the Dead Sea. | Jan 11, 2010 | ||
| Geologic time data updated. | Oct 06, 2009 | ||
| Added new Web site: Extreme Science - The Lowest Elevation - Dead Sea. | Apr 16, 2009 | ||
| Added new Web site: How Stuff Works - Geography - Geography of Dead Sea. | Jul 30, 2008 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | May 11, 2006 | ||
| Article revised. | Nov 12, 2004 | ||
| Article revised. | Jun 14, 2002 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | May 27, 1999 |
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