The Dead Sea Is Dying As Its Dark Salty Waters Retreat

The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 11-4-2003

[RightWhale]

Does anyone out there know if anything lives in the Dead Sea? Fish?

Tourists, mainly. Bobbing on the surface.

[inPhase]

Is the Salton Sea much more alkaline than Mono?

[blam]

"Is the Salton Sea much more alkaline than Mono?"

I don't know. I do know that a water sprinkling was just installed at the Salton Sea to keep the wind from blowing up toxic(?) dust from the old lake bed.

[inPhase]

Re: Mammoth Lakes,

the volcano is dormant and also points at would blow out at Yosemite. (it is an unusual kind of Volcano as well.)

If you look at a continuance of your Mono picture you will see Yosemite Valley <25 air miles miles away from Mammoth. Mammoth was part of the original Yosemite just like Hetch Hetchy, but Teddy Roosevelt gave in the the gold mining interests or however you want to put it and took Mammoth out of the Yosemite preserve.

Mammoth Lakes is the most awesome skiing on the planet.

[blam]

Ecology Of The Dead Sea Biosphere Reserve

[inPhase]

I think water sprinkling going on at Owens dry lake beds too. Bet that's what those pipes are.

[Salvation]

Ping!

[blam]

The Dead Sea is not "DEAD"…..

As early as 1936, it was proven that the Dead Sea is not completely abiotic i. e. "dead" . (Elazari,Volcani -1936). Since then, a number of halophitic and halotolerant microorganisms have been isolated from the Dead Sea. Two communities have been observed which are Dunaiiella parva, an alga, and; Sulfur isotope gave evidence (Gavrieli and Bein,1993) indicating sulfate reduction by bacteria.

[inPhase]

Good read and link, thanks. Do you know how much lower Dead Sea is than Death Valley? (just south and east of Mono with not much inbetween)

[jrushing]

You post the best "stuff". Moved from Daphne in '95. Love the area. Blakely is a real civil-war sleeper. Blakely. I spent lots of time there.

[blam]

" Blakely is a real civil-war sleeper. Blakely. I spent lots of time there."

Just caught the headline but, they have just spent a lot of money there upgrading the site.

[staytrue]

I read about mono lake and it seems the volcano blew about 760,000 years ago (about the same time as the yellowstone caldera). While drilling for oil, they found lake sediment in mono lake and then volcanic ash, then more lake sediment. They think the lake is over a million years old and maybe the oldest in the US.

[blam]

"They think the lake is over a million years old and maybe the oldest in the US."

Thanks, didn't know that. It wasn't affected in the last Ice Age? Weren't there some glaciers in that area?

[blam]

Found this:

"Mono Lake is most unique. For starters, it's old--at least 700,000 years old and one of the oldest continuously existing lakes on the continent. Fed by huge glaciers back during the last Ice Age, Mono Lake was 60 times larger than the 66 square miles it covers today."

[Ole Okie]

The Dead Sea is dying?

Criminy! I didn't even know it was sick.

[Hilltop]

Is there a doc tuh in the house? Does it hoit when ya cough? Don't cough. bada bing.

I just flew in from the Dead Sea and boy are my arms tired, salty, and caked with ancient seabed goo.

Oye.

[Hilltop]

I didn't say I felta fish, I said gefelta fish. Pardon me while I crank up Matzo Man, a Yiddish disco favorite.

[Quix]

My understanding is that the minerals in the Dead Sea waters are worth TRillions of dollars.

Any verification on this?

[blam]

"My understanding is that the minerals in the Dead Sea waters are worth TRillions of dollars.

Any verification on this?"

This articles states that the mineral wealth of the Dead Sea is four times the wealth of the US.(?)

"The mineral wealth of the Dead Sea (four times the wealth of the United States at the height of her prosperity) and the oil wealth underneath these mentioned areas make it well worth to invest more into research and development. The successful harvesting of our natural wealth would render us independent from foreign aid and consequently free us from much of American and European pressure. It would make Israel one of the wealthiest nations of the world."

[Quix]

Thanks and for the link!