Israeli researchers say labyrinth-like cavern on shores of Dead Sea is world's longest salt cave.
This Wednesday, March 27, 2019 photo, shows the entrance of the Malham Cave at the Dead Sea in Israel. Israeli researchers say they believe this to be the world’s longest salt cave, a network of twisting passageways at the southern tip of the Dead Sea.
The survey was conducted by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a collection of Israeli, Bulgarian and international volunteers. Langford and Vlaykova said they plan to publish the complete map of the cave in a professional publication in the coming months. Salt caves are unusual and rare geological features. Because salt is highly water soluble, large salt deposits do not normally survive long on the surface. Only a handful of salt caves are larger than a kilometer in length. Salt caves tend to only exist in highly arid regions, like the area around the Dead Sea, which is located at the lowest point on earth and is too salty to support animal life.
The Malham Cave’s main outlet yawns not far from a salt pillar named “Lot’s wife,” after the biblical character who was petrified for looking back at the destruction of the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. On the mountainside above, Langford, Vlaykova and their colleagues have identified at least 19 openings where seasonal floods have percolated through Mount Sodom’s rock salt to form the cave.
“The reason why it’s so young is because it’s made of salt,” Frumkin explained. “Limestone caves are much slower to form. They are usually much older. But this one is developing very fast so it’s one of the youngest caves in the world.”
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