The Dead SEa PaLiStInE


	The Dead SEa PaLiStInE

tweezer

6-19-2009 7:42 PM

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palestine dead sea fault zone

tweezer says:

a old health resort ??? lies on a fault zone.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/c2f88891-facf-4088-87ab-047b21a72b29/08A36B6A-3C37-4723-8F25-5F12691A7288/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dead_Sea&oldid=297384865" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dead_Sea&oldid=297384865" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dead_Sea&oldid=297384865"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/en.wikipedia.org/img/5EE29FAE-46AC-4B2D-9E46-5B772FD0FAE3" alt="Dead Sea - A view from Israel looking across to Jordan" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dead_Sea&oldid=297384865"><P>The Dead Sea has attracted visitors from around the <A title="Mediterranean Basin" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediterranean_Basin">Mediterranean basin</A> for thousands of years. Biblically, it was a place of refuge for <A title="David" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David">King David</A>. It was one of the world's first health resorts (for <A title="Herod the Great" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herod_the_Great">Herod the Great</A>), and it has been the supplier of a wide variety of products, from balms for <A title="Ancient Egypt" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egypt">Egyptian</A> <A title="Mummy" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummy">mummification</A> to <A title="Potash" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potash">potash</A> for <A title="Fertilizer" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fertilizer">fertilizers</A>. People also use the salt and the minerals from the Dead Sea to create <A title="Cosmetics" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmetics">cosmetics</A> and herbal sachets.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dead_Sea&oldid=297384865"><P>The Dead Sea is an <A title="Endorheic basin" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endorheic_basin">endorheic lake</A> located in the <A title="Jordan Rift Valley" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan_Rift_Valley">Jordan Rift Valley</A>, a geographic feature formed by the <A title="Dead Sea Transform" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Sea_Transform">Dead Sea Transform</A> (DST). This left lateral-moving <A title="Transform fault" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transform_fault">transform fault</A> lies along the <A title="Tectonics" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tectonics">tectonic</A> <A title="Plate tectonics" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plate_tectonics">plate boundary</A> between the <A title="African Plate" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_Plate">African Plate</A> and the <A title="Arabian Plate" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabian_Plate">Arabian Plate</A>. It runs between the <A title="East Anatolian Fault" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Anatolian_Fault">East Anatolian Fault</A> zone in <A title="Turkey" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey">Turkey</A> and the northern end of the <A title="Red Sea Rift" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Sea_Rift">Red Sea Rift</A> offshore of the southern tip of <A title="Sinai Peninsula" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinai_Peninsula">Sinai</A>.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/08A36B6A-3C37-4723-8F25-5F12691A7288/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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