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Dead Sea Dead Sea, salt lake in southwestern Asia. Bounded
on the west by Israel and the West Bank and on the east by
Jordan, the Dead Sea forms part of the Israeli-Jordanian border.
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Sea, at 400 m (1312 ft)
below sea level, is the lowest water surface on earth. The lake
is 76 km (47 mi) long and has a maximum width of about 16 km
(about 10 mi); its area is about 1049 sq km (about 405 sq mi).
The Dead Sea occupies a north portion of the Great Rift Valley.
On the east the high plateau of Moab rises about 1340 m (about
4400 ft) above the sea; on the west the plateau of Judea rises to
half that height. From the eastern shore a peninsula juts out
into the lake. To the south of this peninsula the lake is
shallow, less than 6 m (less than 20 ft) deep; in the north it
reaches its greatest depth of 399 m (about 1309 ft) below surface
level, and 799 m (about 2621 ft) below sea level.
m
(1000 ft) some 27 percent solid substances: sodium chloride
(common salt), magnesium chloride, calcium chloride, potassium
chloride, magnesium bromide, and many other substances. Because
of the density of solids in the water, the human body easily
floats on the surface. The lake contains no life of any sort
except for a few kinds of microbes; sea fish put into its waters
soon die.