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Black dots show dead zones of unknown size. The size and number of marine dead zones—areas where the deep water is so low in dissolved oxygen that sea creatures cannot survive (except for some specialized bacteria)—have grown in the past half-century. [1] Dead zones are hypoxic (low-oxygen) areas in the world's oceans and large lakes.
The Black Sea is also called the "dead sea" because there is no life below 200 meters. However, several species of fish can still be caught in the sea, so fishing forms a part of the region's economy. Some of the area's important ports are Batumi, Poti, Sukhumi, Sochi, Tuapse and Novorossiysk.
The Black Sea deluge is a hypothesized catastrophic rise in the level of the Black Sea c. 5600 BC due to waters from the Mediterranean Sea breaching a sill in the Bosporus Strait. The hypothesis was headlined when The New York Times published it in December 1996, shortly before it was published in an academic journal . [ 89 ]
[dubious – discuss] The shore of the Dead Sea is the lowest dry land spot on Earth, at 400 m (1,300 ft) below sea level. With its flanks rising sharply to almost 1,000 m (3,300 ft) above sea level in the west, and similarly in the east, the rift is a significant topographic feature over which a few narrow paved roads and difficult mountain ...
Lake Assal is the most saline body of water on earth after Don Juan Pond with 34.8% average salt concentration [10] (up to 40% at 20 m (66 ft) depth); higher than the 33.7% level in the Dead Sea. [10] [16] The dissolved salts include NaCl, KCl, MgCl 2, CaCl 2, CaSO 4 and MgBr 2, with NaCl dominating in Lake Assal and MgCl 2 in the Dead Sea. The ...
The Black Sea area has been isolated and reconnected many times during the last 500,000 years. [21] Opponents of the deluge hypothesis point to clues that water was flowing out of the Black Sea basin as late as 15,000 years ago. [22] In this alternative scenario, much depends on the evolution of the Bosphorus.
Short video about the Dead Sea from the Israeli News Company. The Dead Sea (Arabic: اَلْبَحْر الْمَيِّت, romanized: al-Baḥr al-Mayyit, or اَلْبَحْر الْمَيْت, al-Baḥr al-Mayt; Hebrew: יַם הַמֶּלַח, romanized: Yam hamMelaḥ), also known by other names, is a landlocked salt lake bordered by Jordan to the east, the Israeli-occupied West Bank to ...
The Black Sea region (Turkish: Karadeniz Bölgesi) (sometimes referred to as Pontus or Pontos) is a geographical region of Turkey. The largest city in the region is Samsun . Other big cities are Zonguldak , Trabzon , Ordu , Tokat , Giresun , Rize , Amasya and Sinop .