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II.—The Jordan-Arabah Depression and the Dead Sea

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Israel C. Russell
Israel C. Russell
Affiliation:
Of the United States Geological Survey (Appalachian Division of Geology), Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C., U.S.A.
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The occurrence of numerous terraces on the mountain slopes over-looking the Dead Sea has been reported by several observers, but no accurate measurements of their elevations or definite correlation of the terraces on the opposite slopes of the depression, seem to have been attempted. In the central part of the Wady Arabah on the west flank of the promontory known as Samrat el Fedan, a terrace, or perhaps more properly a gravel bar, has been observed by Hull at an elevation of about 1300 feet above the Dead Sea. This is apparently a definite record of the surface level of the Dead Sea during a former period. On the sides of the Jordan valley the terraces range in height from a few feet to 750 feet above the river. The measurements reported show great variation due principally to an inclination of the surfaces of the terraces, towards the centre of the valley, but indicating also that they are not horizontal in the direction of drainage.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 5 , Issue 9 , September 1888 , pp. 387 - 395
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1888

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page 387 note 1 In describing the Lyme Eegis fossil, I erroneously spoke of the long spinigerous maxillipeds as the first pair of thoracic legs.

page 387 note 2 Geol. and Geog. of Arabia Petræa, Palestine, etc., page 87.

page 388 note 1 “Mount Seir, Sinai and Western Palestine,” p. 162.

page 388 note 2 Geol. and Geog. of Arabia Petraea, Palestine, etc., p. 80.

page 389 note 1 Mount Seir, Sinai, and Western Palestine, p. 131.

page 390 note 1 The strata composing the cliffs at Jebel Usdum, however, are considered by Lartet as being of even older date than the origin of the Dead Sea basin.

page 390 note 2 Expedition géologique de la Mer Morte, Paris, 1877, pp. 175–176,Google Scholar pl. 3, fig. 3; also in Essai sur la géologie de la Palestine, Paris, 1869, p. 240.Google Scholar

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page 394 note 1 This convenient but indefinite term has come down to us from the time when the "western part of the United States was but partially explored, and refers to the vast region west of the bold, eastern face of the Rocky Mountains. It is in this region, between the Rocky Mountains and the Sierra Nevada, that the area of interior drainage termed the Great Basin, mentioned several times in this paper, is situated.