The Cave of the Letters Sediments—Indication of an Early Phase of the Dead Sea Depression?
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Publication Date
January 2001
Abstract
The highest aquatic sediments along the shoulders of the Dead Sea depression have been found in the Cave of the Letters, Nahal Hever, Israel. The cave has acted as a sediment trap, preserving autogenic dolomite and detritic deposits. The dolomitic sediment may correlate with late Miocene dolomites within the rift valley. The morphostratigraphic setting of the sediment implies deposition within an early topographic low that existed in the Dead Sea region since ∼10 to 7 Ma.
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Cave Of The Letters, Dead Sea, Depression
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The Journal of Geology, Vol. 109, no. 1 (2001-01-01).
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SFS0039968_00001
Recommended Citation
Frumkin, Amos, "The Cave of the Letters Sediments—Indication of an Early Phase of the Dead Sea Depression?" (2001). KIP Articles. 720.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/kip_articles/720
