Roosevelt Standard | 1922-01-11 | Page 3 | Dead Sea and Mediterranean

dead sea and mediterranean the old question of the origin of the extreme saltiness ot of the D deab e a a S sea ea has received it a new answer it has been shown after demonstrating that the soil and rocks can have furnished but a traction fraction of the quantity that has collected in the dead sea basin list the roost most important of supply of tills this salt Is atmospheric transportation by winds from tho the mediterranean this view it Is thought Is confirmed by the fact that the ratio of ell chlorine I 1 or ine to 1 bromine r n 6 in tb tha a dead sea Is the same sailie as in the washington star