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Aerial view of the Lisan Peninsula (Lisan means "tongue" in Arabic), which separates the Dead Sea into two parts. This small bay of turquoise-colored water was formed by the break of a dike in an evaporation pond of the Arab Potash Works in the year 2000, when the hyper saline water rushed back to the Dead Sea within a one hour-long catastrophic flow (perhaps caused by a sink hole, but nobody knows), causing damages of approx. 30-40 million US dollars. The beige ground is formed from recently revealed lake sediments which are rapidly eroding from wind and the occasional rain (less than 10 cm/year).

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Dead Sea
Aerial view of the Lisan Peninsula (Lisan means "tongue" in Arabic), which separates the Dead Sea into two parts. This small bay of turquoise-colored water was formed by the break of a dike in an evaporation pond of the Arab Potash Works in the year 2000, when the hyper saline water rushed back to the Dead Sea within a one hour-long catastrophic flow (perhaps caused by a sink hole, but nobody knows), causing damages of approx. 30-40 million US dollars. The beige ground is formed from recently revealed lake sediments which are rapidly eroding from wind and the occasional rain (less than 10 cm/year).

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