1999
DOI: 10.1029/1999jb900084
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Holocene stratigraphy of the Dead Sea: Correlation of high‐resolution seismic reflection profiles to sediment cores

Abstract: Abstract. The northern basin of the Dead Sea is occupied by a -300-m-deep lake. A series of cores in the deep-water part of the lake provide information about the top 365 cm of the sediments. The cores were correlated with high-resolution 3.5-kHz seismic profiles from this area and provide lithologic and age constraints for the high-resolution seismic reflection data. Visual comparison of the two data sets shows that strong surface and shallow subsurface reflectors (A and B) correlate to the massive salt at th… Show more

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“…Based on 14 C dating of the upper and lower layers, Yechieli et al (1993) have indeed proposed that the halite layer formed between 11315 F 80 and 8440 F 95 years B.P. This layer probably is the same as the one identified by Ben-Avraham et al (1999) from seismic reflection profiles in the Dead Sea basin, and dated about 8 to 7 kyears B.P. It is probably during this regression that lake Lisan formed the numerous wave-cut shorelines carved into the talus apron and terraces on top of the Late Pleistocene fan delta at the base of the cliff flanking the Dead Sea.…”
Section: Comparing Morphological and Sedimentological Records With Lamentioning
confidence: 94%
“…Based on 14 C dating of the upper and lower layers, Yechieli et al (1993) have indeed proposed that the halite layer formed between 11315 F 80 and 8440 F 95 years B.P. This layer probably is the same as the one identified by Ben-Avraham et al (1999) from seismic reflection profiles in the Dead Sea basin, and dated about 8 to 7 kyears B.P. It is probably during this regression that lake Lisan formed the numerous wave-cut shorelines carved into the talus apron and terraces on top of the Late Pleistocene fan delta at the base of the cliff flanking the Dead Sea.…”
Section: Comparing Morphological and Sedimentological Records With Lamentioning
confidence: 94%
“…Core DS7-1SC (in short DS7), 365 cm long, 12 cm in diameter, taken at 203 m bsl (level of 1993) was recovered from a rise adjacent to the western border fault of the Dead Sea graben. It is located northeast of Ein Gedi by 31 29.363 0 N and 35 26.101 0 E (Heim et al, 1997;Ben-Avraham et al, 1999). The lithology consists of an alternation of two units ( Fig.…”
Section: Geological Setting Coring and Laminationmentioning
confidence: 98%
“…Yechieli 1993;Migowski et al 1998;Neev and Emery 1995;Ben Avraham et al 1999). Some examples are given in Figure 2.…”
Section: Dead Sea Sinkholes: Preconditions and Formationmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This salt lies under the regionalwater table in most places, and is permeable compared with older salt units (Yechieli 1995). Younger, thin salt layers were deposited in the Dead Sea basin during the late Holocene (Neev 1964;Heim et al 1997;Ben-Avraham et al 1999). …”
Section: Dead Sea Sinkholes: Preconditions and Formationmentioning
confidence: 99%