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The Geology of Jebel Usdum, Dead Sea

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

B. K. N. Wyllie
B. K. N. Wyllie
Affiliation:
Geologist, Anglo-Persian Oil Company.
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Summary

The salt of Jebel Usdum is not a product of the Pleistocene Dead Sea, nor of the lake which preceded it (in ? Pliocene time), the waters of which were fresh for a long period and deposited sediments, with a maximum thickness of 1,000 feet or more, which are younger than the salt.

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Original Articles
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Geological Magazine , Volume 68 , Issue 8 , August 1931 , pp. 366 - 372
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1931

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page 369 note 1 A stronger tradition seems to attach Lot's name to pinnacles of calcsinter which have been formed along the eastern rift-fault, on the Transjordan side, some distance south of Wadi Mojib. These are called Mart Lut, Bint Lut, and Kelb Lut (Lot's Wife, Daughter, and Dog).

page 372 note 1 King, W. B. R., “Cambrian Fossils from the Dead Sea”: Geol. Mag., LX, 1923, 507–14.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

page 372 note 2 Cox, L. R., “A Triassic Fauna from the Jordan Valley”: Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., xiv, 1924, 52–96Google Scholar. Idem, “A Bajocian-Bathonian Outcrop in the Jordan Valley”: ibid., xv, 1925, 169–81.

page 372 note 3 H. Muir-Wood, “Jurassic Brachiopoda from the Jordan Valley”: ibid., xv, 1925, 181–92. The collections described in these papers by King, Cox, and Muir-Wood were all made by the writer and his colleagues, K. A. Campbell and George M. Lees.