National Geographic News, December 8, 2011
Sediment cores from the Dead Sea reveal that the water body may once
have completely dried up, researchers say. The discovery raises fears
the sea could vanish again. The same cores also show records of droughts
and earthquakes that could be interpreted as supporting accounts in the
Bible. Drilling cores collected in 2010 revealed clear annual layers,
almost like tree rings, said geologist Steven Goldstein of Columbia
University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. The team also found
"jumbled" sections in the Dead Sea sediment, where normally rhythmic
layers had been stirred together by large earthquakes, Goldstein said.
Ben-Avraham, head of the Minerva Dead Sea Research Center at Tel Aviv
University in Israel, noted that this is important because, when it
comes to earthquakes, the last century in the Middle East was unusually
quiet. "If you believe the biblical chronology, this is roughly [the
time of] Sodom and Gomorrah," he said.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/12/111208-dead-sea-bible-biblical-salt-dry-science/
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