why dead sea has too much salt?

Answer 1

The Dead Sea is continually fed water from the rivers and streams coming down off the mountains that surround it. But the kicker is this....no rivers drain out of the Dead Sea. The only way water gets out of the Sea is through evaporation. And boy does it evaporate! This part of the world get plenty hot. When the water evaporates, it leaves behind all the dissolved minerals in the Sea, just making it saltier. In fact, it's through the dual action of; 1) continuing evaporation and 2) minerals salts carried into the Sea from the local rivers, that makes the Sea so salty. The fact that the water doesn't escape the Sea just traps the salts within its shores. There's nothing living in the Dead Sea because it got so salty, so quickly, that evolution has not had a chance to produce any creatures that could adapt to such brutal conditions.

Answer 2

The Dead Sea is a natural wonder which is situated in the center of the great Syrian-African rift valley fault between Israel and the Kingdom of Jordan. The Dead Sea is actually a big inland lake 76 KM long, up to 18 KM wide and it is 400 meters deep at the deepest point. It is the lowest point on dry land in the world (417 under sea level).


Another record held by the Dead Sea is having the highest salt concentration of any of the world's seas, salt lakes or any stretch of water. The salt concentration in the dead sea is ten times higher than other seas (for example: the salt concentration in the Dead Sea is 34%, while the concentration in the Mediterranean sea is only 3.5%). This high salt concentration makes floating in its waters effortless.

The high salinity of the waters in the Dead Sea prevents the existance of life in the water, hence its name. The name "Dead Sea" for the Hebrew "Yam Hamelach" (Salt Sea) was attributed by Christian Monks, astonished by the apparent absence of any form of life in the sea water. Recent scientific research however, discovered 11 types of bacteria in the water.

The Dead Sea is drying quickly. 2,000-3,000 years ago, the level of the Dead Sea was 360 meters below sea level. However, diversion of sweet water from the Jordan river since 1950, by both Jordan and Israel, has reduced to less than the half the flow of water from the Jordan river into the Dead Sea. Today, water evaporation is faster than the water supply and the sea is gradually shrinking. Over the last 30 years, water levels have dropped 25 meters.

This fall of the Dead Sea level has caused another strange and problematic phenomenon in the area. At points where rivers flow into the Dead Sea, (such as Nahal David and Nahal Arugot in the Ein Gedi area), the water is absorbed by the sandy ground and streams underground into the Sea. Because of the fall in the Dead Sea level, the underground rivers flow faster, and carry clay sediments: thus large underground caves have been formed, which sometimes collapse unexpectedly, and people have fallen down holes a few meters deep. This phenomenon causes great damages to tourism and local industries.

Answer 3

Science-the oceans are just the salt washed off the earth, diluted
Dead sea did not have anywhere to go to dilute

Bible reason-site of Sodom and gomorrah and that Greater Urban area, angel salted the earth of that fertile valley

Answer 4

Most people had picnics there, and spilled their salt shakers in the sea by accident, and they thought: "Oh, it won't make that much of a difference" but the tons of people had nice picnics there and spilled salt, therefore salting the dead sea. LOL that was fun to make up.

Answer 5

In this region is where the wife of "Lot" looked back at the burning city of Sodom & Gomorrah and was turned into a pillar of salt......

Answer 6

The water evaporates from it very quickly, It is made of ground (mineral) water and river water in the first place. AND it is in a salty desert. It is six times as salty as the ocean.

Answer 7

coz water is a universal solvent, n salt is the solute.. Just 4 the sake of answring/// Lol

Answer 8

Nothing flows out , it just sits and evaporates , so it gets saltier

Answer 9

http://www.authenticwalk.com/Lesson.phtml?Cat=415&P=0&M=A&V=
This site gives an explaination.

Answer 10

it was made like dat!