Rochelle, >>Hey, Watch it! If I had been using a single source, I would have said so ... and quoted from it. My data are from books, journals, lab reports, and other scientific reports from across more than 50 years. I have known specifically about the geology and marine biology of the Med basin and the general area for more than 35 years. During one delightful 3-year period I was fortunate to have translated or re-written the English of reports, and drawn many maps of both the coast and the bed of the Med for an Oceanographic Institute ... and have always kept up with new material on the subjects.
Nobody can cover everything, so I don't know if the above book goes into the hauntingly familiar similarities between the formation of the mountain spurs that poke into the Dead Sea basin and the spurs at the undersea sills of the Med/Atlantic and Black Sea/Med interfaces...<< Hopefully, I did say "one of" ... <g> While trying to find any sort of terrain map on the web (at which I was unsuccessful) I stumbled upon this volume at the Oxford U.P. site. The description of the contents seemed right on target: Contributors 1. Dead Sea research - An introduction, Tina Niemi, Zvi Ben-Avraham, and Joel R. Gat PART I: Structure and Tectonics of the Dead Sea Basin 2. Topography and bathymetry of the Dead Sea depression, John K. Hall 3. Geophysical framework of the Dead Sea: Structure and tectonics, Zvi Ben-Avraham 4. The history and formation of the Dead Sea basin, Zvi Garfunkel 5. Hydrocarbon exploration in the southern Dead Sea area, Michael Gardosh, Eliezer Kashai, Shalom Salhov, Haim Shulman, and Eli Tannenbaum 6. Active tectonics in the Dead Sea basin, Tina M. Niemi and Zvi Ben-Avraham 7. On the seismicity of the Dead Sea basin, Avi Shapira PART II: Physical, Chemical, and Biological Aspects of the Dead Sea 8. The hydrography of a hypersaline lake, David A. Anati 9. Surface currents and seiches in the Dead Sea, Ziv Sirkes, Florian Schirmer, Heinz-Hermann Essen, and Klaus-Werner Gurgel 10. Wind waves on the Dead Sea, Artur Hecht, Tal Ezer, Avraham Huss, and Aviv Shapira 11. Evaporation estimate for the Dead Sea: Essential considerations for saline Lakes, Ilana Steinhorn 12. Evolution of the Dead Sea brines, Israel Zak 13. Ion Interaction approach to geochemical aspects of the Dead Sea, Boris S. Krumgalz 14. Halite deposition from the Dead Sea: 1960-1993, Ittai Gavrieli 15. Halite precipitation and sediment deposition as measured in sediment traps deployed in the Dead Sea: 1981-1983, Mariana Stiller, Joel R. Gat, and Perla Kaushansky 16. Carbon dynamics in the Dead Sea, Boaz Luz, Mariana Stiller, and A. Siep Talma 17. The radiocarbon content of the Dead Sea, A. Siep Talma, John C. Vogel, and Mariana Stiller 18. Iron, manganese, and trace elements in the Dead Sea, Ami Nishri and Mariana Stiller 19. Microbiological studies in the Dead Sea: 1892-1992, Aharon Oren PART III: Quaternary History of the Lake and Its Environment 20. Geomorphology of the Dead Sea western margin, Dan Bowman 21. Fluctuations of Late Pleistocene Lake Lisan in the Dea Sea Rift, Tina M. Niemi 22. The Holocene history of Dead Sea levels, Amos Frumkin 23. The Dead Sea region: An archaeological perspective, Itzaq Beit-Arieh 24. Geochemical and hydrological processes in the coastal environment of the Dead Sea, Yoseph Yechieli and Joel R. Gat 25. Groundwaters along the western Dead Sea shore, Emanuel Mazor 26. The botanical conquest of the newly exposed shores of the Dead Sea, Erga Aloni, Amram Eshel, and Yoav Waisel 27. Dead Sea research: Synopsis and future, Joel R. Gat, Tina M. Niemi, and Zvi Ben-Avraham Index It looks as though some of those articles you mention are reproduced here. Of course, I did not mean to suggest that your knowledge was limited to a single reference volume! Respectfully, Dave Hindley Cleveland, Ohio, USA For private reply, e-mail to "David C. Hindley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from Orion, e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: "unsubscribe Orion." Archives are on the Orion Web site, http://orion.mscc.huji.ac.il. (PLEASE REMOVE THIS TRAILOR BEFORE REPLYING TO THE MESSAGE)
