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The Dead Sea, is really a lake - 1982
![The Dead Sea, is really a lake - 1982 The Dead Sea, is really a lake - 1982](https://cdn.ipernity.com/200/37/56/49133756.dd185192.640.jpg?r2)
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Beginning about 2.5 million years ago, heavy streamflow into the lake deposited thick sediments of shale, clay, sandstone, rock salt, and gypsum. Later, strata of clay, marl, soft chalk, and gypsum were dropped onto layers of sand and gravel. Because the water in the lake evaporated faster than it was replenished by precipitation during the past 10,000 years, the lake gradually shrank to its present form. In so doing, it exposed deposits that now cover the Dead Sea valley to thicknesses of between about 1 and 4 miles (1.6 and 6.4 km).
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