2007-03-14 03:32:35 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
There is no outlet for the water. It just sits there and gets saltier until there's a flood.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Sea
2007-03-14 03:39:14 · answer #1 · answered by LX V 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Water from the Jordan river that flows into the Dead Sea contains dissolved minerals including salt. There is no outlet from the Dead Sea so as water evaporates it leaves behind the minerals and over many years it has become very salty.
2016-03-28 22:49:31 · answer #2 · answered by Scharri 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The rocks around it have high salt content. This salt is dissolved into rivers which feed the Dead Sea and deposited there. Also, its low elevation means that no rivers run away from it, only into it, meaning that all material deposited there remains there. It doesn't overflow because the water evaporates. The salt remains.
2007-03-14 03:37:55 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because it has no outlet. Water flows in, bringing salts. The water evaporates, the salts do not. Repeat that seasonally for a few million years and voila, a salt water lake or sea.
2007-03-14 03:38:17 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because it is below sea level and therefore has never given off any water since time began. Therefore all the minerals that enter the sea stay in the sea.
2007-03-14 03:36:59 · answer #5 · answered by msender77 2 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Lots wife poluted it
2007-03-14 03:36:05 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
A geologist could tell you.
2007-03-14 03:38:23 · answer #7 · answered by chris p 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋