Who killed the Dead Sea?

Answer 1

Nature! To explain, we have to go to the subject of plate tectonics. In this part of the world there is a rift forming where two crustal plates are spreading apart.

The East Rift Valley runs through most of Africa, but it starts north of the Dead Sea and runs south along the eastern side of the continent. The Sea is located right along the Rift Valley where the earth's crust is being stretched thin. To get an idea of how this "crustal spreading" thing works, take a bar of taffy, or taffy-like candy and try to pull it apart. You'll see where the candy starts to come apart it gets really thin just before it breaks. That's what is happening to the earth's crust in the Rift Valley. Where the earth's crust gets thin that part of the surface sinks downward. The rift forms, sinking downward where the crust is stretched thin. The Dead Sea is still sinking lower, even today. Scientists figure that the Dead Sea lowers by as much as 13 inches per year. On a geologic time scale that's incredibly fast!

Anyway, back to the formation of the Dead Sea. All roads lead to the Sea when it comes to the rivers in the area. 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

Two little boys talk about their dads.
A: Do u know the lion in the museum?
B: Yah, what?
A: My father killed it.
B: Do u know Dead Sea?
A: Sure.
B: My father killed it.
End of story.

Answer 3

Some topographer who stated that that sea was under sea level
so if your bathing in the dead sea your basically dead lol

Answer 4

Geico they illuminated the middle man too. Just kidding but the Dead Sea is called that because there is so much salt in it there is not much life.

Answer 5

The Dead Sea isn't alive, so, nobody did.

Answer 6

The red sea, that's why is all bloody

Answer 7

It's called that because of the high salt content.

Answer 8

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh the salt!!! She burrrnnnzz

Answer 9

Oops i didn't do it on purpose .Ive always been a bit too handy with the salt.

Answer 10

Desmond Dekker and the Israelites thats who!!!!!