THE DEAD SEA as a BAROMETER
A Catastrophic rise in the oceans eustatic sea
level occured approximately between the years 40 BC to 100 AD. as a result of an abnormal
changing world climate. One piece of evidence for this occurence was a sudden and abnormal
riseof the Dead Sea level during this period, consisting of various morphological
data, and dendrochronology. The Dead Scrolls were found at these high watermarks
possibly stowed away as a protection from the rising sea, rather than the general theory
that their owners were hiding from the Roman armies . It may also not be a coincidence
that Ygal Yadin found in precisely the same caves, artifacts from another, pagan age two
thousand years earlier, when a similar rise
of the sea level is estimated to have occured.
The Dead Sea level behaves rather like a barometer. Normally the total quantity of
catchment area water draining into the Dead Sea, equals the quantity of evaporated water
over a given seasonal period. Since the Sea is a confined body of water, and since its
surface area hardly changes at different sea levels, an increase or a decrease in
catchment water draining into it, will only be reflected in a change of sea level. Thus
the Dead Sea may provide us with quite an accurate indication of rainfall in any annual
season.
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Curve of Dead Sea
levels between c 100 BC and 100 AD shows an abnormal rise of nearly 70 meters above
the average sealevel
During the first century BCE the Dead Sea rose dramatically from a norm
of approx minus -390m to a high of minus -330m [below Mediterranean sea level]From
morphological data gathered and historical documentation [Cippora Klein 1986] a graph of
the Sea level could be constructed
Ref: Cippora Klein :
Fluctuations of the Dead Sea and climatic fluctuations in Erez-Israel during Historical
times [submitted to the Hebrew University April 1986
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