How old is the Dead Sea?

Question

I am doing a report for science and one of the parts is the dead sea. I am pretty sure I know how it formed (you can include that if you want), but I don't know when it formed/how old it is. I found one website that said it is 3 million years old, one that said 27 million years old and another that said 5-23 million years old. Please Help!!!!!

Answer 1

Three million seems to be the current consensus.

Answer 2

The Dead Sea is located in the Dead Sea Rift, which is part of a long fissure in the Earth's surface called the Great Rift Valley. The 6000 km (3700 mile) long Great Rift Valley extends from the Taurus Mountains of Turkey to the Zambezi Valley in southern Africa. The Great Rift Valley formed in Miocene times as a result of the Arabian Plate moving northward and then eastward away from the African Plate.

AROUND THREE MILLION YEARS, ago what is now the valley of the Jordan River, Dead Sea, and Wadi Arabah was repeatedly inundated by waters from the Mediterranean Sea.

I am guessing that it is three million years old according to the article.

Answer 3

I remember when the dead sea was just feeling sick.

Answer 4

So old that it is now dead! ;-0