We have studied the magnetic properties of wet and dry late Pleistocene Lake Lisan sediments and the Holocene Dead Sea sediments. Our initial prediction was that the properties of both would be quite similar, because they have similar source and lake conditions, unless diagenetic change had occurred. Rock magnetic and paleomagnetic experiments revealed three stages of magnetization acquisition....

The isotopic composition and mass balances of sources and sinks of sulfur are used to constrain the limnological–hydrological evolution of the last glacial Lake Lisan (70–14 ka BP) and the Holocene Dead Sea. Lake Lisan deposited large amounts of primary gypsum during discrete episodes of lake level decline. This gypsum, which appears in massive or laminated forms, displays dS values in the rang...

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Mount Sedom is the surface expression of a salt diapir that has emerged since the Pleistocene in the southwestern part of the Dead Sea basin. Milestones in the uplift history of the Sedom salt diapir since its inception were deduced from angular and erosional unconformities, thickness variations, caprock formation, chemistry and isotope composition of lacustrine aragonite, cave morphology, prec...

هذيل من القبائل العدنانيَّة ولغتها ضمن اللُّغات الَّتي نزل بها القرآن الكريم؛ حيث امتازت بفصاحتها. وهي المهمَّة في التَّاريخ العربي القديم منذ العصر الجاهلي، كما أنَّها تميّزت بكثرة شعرائها الفحول؛ برز منهم كثير- ممَّا يزيد على ثلاثين شاعرًا- ولعلَّ أبا ذؤيب الهذليّ يأتي مقدّمة هؤلاء الشّعراء؛ وذلك لمكانته الفنيَّة وتصويراته الموحيَّة خلال ديوانه. وبناءً ذلك فقد كان له أثر كبير بناء المعجم العربي، خاصَّة معجم "لسان العرب"...

Based on geomorphic observations, we discuss lake-level fluctuations, alluvial deposition and river entrenchment in the Dead Sea–Wadi Araba area. The bulk of alluvium in the northern Wadi Araba was probably deposited before the Lisan period of lake transgression that started at about 70 kyears B.P. The lake reached a maximum elevation about 150 m below sea level (b.s.l.), possibly around 15 cal...