The highest point on the earth's surface is the top of Mount Everest, located at an altitude of 8,800 meters above sea level. But what is about the lowest score? Livescience.com information portal speak About two candidates for this title.
The lowest point of the planet on land is the dead coast in the Middle East. They lie 430 meters under the sea level, but they are not the deepest point on the ground – if we take into account the sea and the ocean, then the file holder is “the abyss of the challenge” in the Mariana compartment. It reaches a depth of 10 935 meters.
The exact depth of the surface of the dead sea may vary from day to day. According to NASA, on a dry, hot summer day, the water level can sink 2-3 cm due to evaporation. For reference, the length of the dead sea (in the fact of large saltwater lake) is 76 km and 18 km width. The dead sea of Muslims is called monks who realize that there is no living in salt water.
The dead sea runs along a 1,000 km fault, extending from the red sea to the Taurus mountain range in Türkiye. The break, began to form nearly 20 million years ago, actually sketched the border between African and Arabic Kitchen.
It is noteworthy that the fault of the dead sea is the type of conversion error – both sides move to the north, but the east is a bit faster, about 5 mm per year. To compare, San Andreas's famous sweep moves 10 times faster.
Previously, scientists said that the sea of death originated from zigzag. If he was completely frank, one of the sides he could approach the other side smoothly, but because Zigzag, one side drove over there-and there was a distance. Such cavities have quite high walls, partly explaining why the sea died at such a low depth.
The problem is the standard model for the formation of such waters in conflict with reality: usually they develop for the first time, and only then deep. And at the dead sea, the opposite is the opposite – its width is much higher than the depth. The sedimental deposit at the bottom of the southern part of the dead sea forms a layer of nearly 15 km thick with the width of a reservoir only 10 km.
