Dead Sea: water leaves, salt remains

Exploration · Quaternary

Dead Sea: water leaves, salt remains

Basin, salts and modern lake-level change · process diagram

An imagined saline Dead Sea shore, not a dated shoreline, water level or southern evaporation-pond reconstruction.

The Dead Sea is a lake without a river outlet to the ocean. Distinguish the fault-formed basin, salts left by evaporation and recent reductions in inflow. The background map locates the present basin; it does not reconstruct past shorelines.