Comments on: Dead Sea Salt Formations

By: Lorna Appleby

Lorna Appleby — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 16:37:00 +0000

If you wish to share and educate — shouldn’t you tell the answer? I know people learn better if they dig up information themselves, BUT this is the internet generation.. most won’t even bother to Google.

If I can remember my bible study accurate (It was only 30′ish years ago!) it was where Sodom was.. and the people were immoral and without conscience so God punished them. (Turned the people to salt?)Is it similar in the Qur’an?

By: Mohannad Shaheen

Mohannad Shaheen — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 09:38:00 +0000

i just wish that all people would realize why the deadsea is on this form, and why is it the lowest place on earth..

the answer is simply mentioned in Quran..

just to answer any curious

By: CountZero

CountZero — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 23:40:00 +0000

Utterly stunning photos. Really beautiful.

By: Noctilucent Studios

Noctilucent Studios — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 20:41:00 +0000

Gorgeous pictures. Might be too much information, but this is where my soap comes from! Excellent for the skin.

By: Sxe

Sxe — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 20:37:00 +0000

What an amazing place… in the shallow water’s edge I could grab a handful of the sea bed which was just a pile of salt crystals. It’s also very difficult to tread water or float upright without the denser supersalinated water forcing one’s body up and out of the sea.

By: strangefriend

strangefriend — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 20:34:00 +0000

And the Dead Sea is also shrinking. Israel is claiming the new land even in Palestine.

http://youtu.be/2o-oqOa6cVY

By: Paul Wisneskey

Paul Wisneskey — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 20:08:00 +0000

My wife, kids and I just left the Jordanian side of the Dead Sea today: http://www.coldspaghetti.org/blog/2011/12/26/at-the-edge-of-the-dead-sea/

By: markhly

markhly — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 20:00:00 +0000

Probably more like half, or just less then half.

By: dahlia

dahlia — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 19:47:00 +0000

i have a salt crystal-encrusted rock i pried from the dead sea and brought home as a souvenir. over the years the salt crust has gotten smaller and smoother — i imagine eventually it’ll be gone altogether and it’ll just be a rock.

By: snagglepuss

snagglepuss — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 19:29:00 +0000

Fascinating how the right half looks like the crackling finish on medieval portraits. That looks like an eye in one of those christ paintings from the period.

By: Jim Saul

Jim Saul — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 19:25:00 +0000

Fractalicious!
The variety of colors are astonishing. Imagine what strange formations we’ll find on some of the outer system moons.

Some of those look just like bacteria colonies spreading across the agar in a petri dish.

By: mahlsdorferami

mahlsdorferami — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 19:05:00 +0000

“Bordering Israel and Jordan”

I don’t mean to split hairs, but most of the western shore is in fact Palestine.

By: Chris Perriman

Chris Perriman — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 19:00:00 +0000

Double-L, Double-N in Millennia. But amazing pics! :D #corrections #typo