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Where does the water come from in the dead sea and what are the names of the rivers and tributaries that flow into the dead sea?
River jordan
River deltas form where rivers meet the sea.
Quite a few reasons: * Higher salt content in the rocks and soils that are collected by rivers on their journey to the sea * More rivers entering the sea
The dead sea is getting more salty. Like all seas, rivers which carry bits of sedimentary rock, enter the sea and "dump" whatever they carried on its journey to the sea. As you may well know, there is salt in this sedimnetary rock. The dead sea is more salty that others for a fews reasons: * Higher salt content in rocks & soil * More rivers entering sea
The dead sea is getting more salty. Like all seas, rivers which carry bits of sedimentary rock, enter the sea and "dump" whatever they carried on its journey to the sea. As you may well know, there is salt in this sedimnetary rock. The dead sea is more salty that others for a fews reasons: * Higher salt content in rocks & soil * More rivers entering sea
The Dead Sea has greater salinity than the Baltic Sea. The Baltic has a greater abundance of fresh water, something like 1/40th of its volume as there are some 200 rivers in the region
hills and mountains, sea and lakes, rivers, plains
The Jordan river flows into the Dead Sea, keeping it full of water despite evaporation. The Dead sea, like the Aral Sea and Lake Chad, is a lake that is in a desert where the water evaporates but is fed by water coming in through one or more rivers. No water flows out of the dead sea, it only leaves by evaporation.
The Ural Mountains, The Ural River, and the Caspian Sea
It slowly degrades shores and walls on the sea or rivers.
Salt. The Dead Sea is almost nine times more salty than the ocean, and for this reason there aren't a lot of things that can live in it (some bacterial and microbial fungi can manage it).It's also "dead" in a hydrological sense: it has only inflows; there are no streams or rivers flowing out of it (since the shores of the Dead Sea are already the lowest dry land on Earth at over 400 m below sea level, there's nowhere lower for any streams or rivers to flow to). This contributes to its hypersalinity, as the only natural way for water to leave the Dead Sea is by evaporation, leaving the dissolved minerals behind.