Abstract The formation of divergent plate boundaries involves the opening continental basins and uplift margins accompanied by seawater ingression reorganization surface groundwater drainage systems. These processes drive water‐rock reactions, resulting in deposition epigenetic minerals country rock adjacent to boundary. Here, we study isotopic geochemical record dolomite ferric‐oxide that occu...

The first report, to our knowledge, on the occurrence of filamentous fungi in the hypersaline (340 g salt l-1) Dead Sea is presented. Three species of filamentous fungi from surface water samples of the Dead Sea were isolated: Gymnascella marismortui (Ascomycota), which is described as a new species, Ulocladium chlamydosporum and Penicillium westlingii (Deuteromycota). G. marismortui and U. chl...

While global mean sea level rise (SLR) and acceleration (SLA) are indicators of climate change and are informative regarding the current state of the climate, assessments of regional and local SLR are essential for policy makers responding to, and preparing for, changes in sea level. In this work, three acceleration detection techniques are used to demonstrate the robust SLA in the China Seas. ...

Hydroxylamine (NH2OH) in the Baltic Sea S. Gebhardt, S. Walter, G. Nausch, and H. W. Bange Forschungsbereich Marine Biogeochemie, Leibniz-Institut für Meereswissenschaften (IFM-GEOMAR), Düsternbrooker Weg 20, 24105 Kiel, Germany Leibniz-Institut für Ostseeforschung Warnemünde, Seestr. 15, 18119 Rostock, Germany Received: 14 September 2004 – Accepted: 5 October 2004 – Published: 19 October 2004 ...

In spite of significant differences in their sizes, depths, salinity and other properties, the Aral Sea and the Dead Sea share many features, as illustrated by a comparison of the histories of both water bodies. Fifteenth and early sixteenth century maps, based on the ‘Geography’ of Ptolemy, contain both lakes. The first successful limnological surveys of the lakes were made in the same year 18...

Sea buckthorn (Hippophae rhamnoides L.) is a multipurpose, hardy, deciduous shrub, an ideal plant for soil erosion control, land reclamation, wildlife habitat enhancement, and farmstead protection. It has high nutritional and medicinal values for humans. The majority of sea buckthorn research has been conducted in Asia and Europe. It is a promising new crop for North America, and recently it ha...

The Dead Sea is an excellent natural laboratory for the investigation of Reactive Bromine Species (RBS) chemistry, due to the high RBS levels observed in this area, combined with anthropogenic air pollutants up to several ppb. The present study investigated the basic chemical mechanism of RBS at the Dead Sea using a numerical one-dimensional chemical model. Simulations were based on data obtain...

Conservation in the sea is similar to conservation on land; protecting places and species requires identification of appropriate targets for conservation. Many species range across international boundaries suggesting that effective conservation needs to be implemented at both the international level as well as the local level. Here we summarize a tri-national effort between Canada, Mexico and t...