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The Dead Sea's 'Salt Giants' Reveal Deep Secrets About Earth's Past


The large-scale deposits of salt around the Dead Sea, known as salt giants, are built up as the lake's highly saline water evaporates, and a new study of their formation has revealed some of the secrets of these mounds of halite.

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