Show dead sea salt water lake the dead sea is a salt water lak lake in southern palestine in which th the a river jordan terminates it Is for dyseven ty seven miles long ten miles wide has a 8 maximum depth of at 1280 feet and an area of square miles lying 1290 feet be tow low sea level it is the lowest body of water on the earth having no no outlet its excess water Is taken off by evaporation estimated at about tons dally daily the salinity Is 23 to 27 per cent which Is about five times that of the ocean the eco cco value of the salts in solution Is great the principal ones being potash and common salt the commercial exploitation was begun tn in 1031 no animal life can exist in its waters |