When did the dead sea form?

Answer 1

About 25million years ago, due to a combination of high sea levels in the Mediterranean Sea and seismic activity in the region, a link formed between the Mediterranean Ocean and the northern tip of the Afro-Asian Rift valley. The link was formed close to the modern city of Haifa and resulted in the inundation of what is now known as the Jordan River basin. Subsequent seismic activity resulted in the closure of the link which left behind a large lake over 200km long from north to south and around 30km wide which geologists call Lake Lisan. The level of Lake Lisan has fluctuate greatly over its lifetime but has fallen steadily in the last 25,000 years or so and the salinity has changed significantly during that time. The remaining remnants of Lake Lisan are the Sea of Galillee and the Dead Sea.

Answer 2

to the person who wrote that answer the Dead Sea is actually a lake not an Ocean or a Sea.

Around three million years ago, what is now the valley of the Jordan River and Dead Sea, was repeatedly flooded by waters from the Mediterranean sea. The waters formed in a narrow, crooked bay which was connected to the sea through what is now the Jezreel Valley. The lake that occupied the Dead Sea Rift, named

Sodam and Gomorrah deposited beds of salt that eventually became 3 km (2 miles) thick.

Approximately two million years ago the land between the Rift Valley and the Mediterranean Sea rose to such an extent that the ocean could no longer flood the area. Thus, the long bay became a lake.

Answer 3

it took many probaby hundreds of year to form the dead sea so no one is sure about the exact year

so if you can give a better answer feel free to edit mine