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Scientists who explored the Red Sea have discovered the natural traps of death in the region, which is now believed to be the place where Moses separated the waters.
Salt solution pools have found 4,000 feet below the Aqaba Bay surface, where it is estimated that the water is up to 10 times more salty than normal seawater, and the lack of oxygen causes the pools to kill or stun all the sea life entering it, according to a Study published in Nature Communications.
The study also claimed that larger predators were lurking near the edge of the pool to grab a helpless prey after they had succumbed to the effects.
3D View a Red Sea Topographic Map, North Africa, the Middle East.
The research team, which led Purkis himself, a professor and chairman of the Department of Sea Generalness at the University of Miami, used remote control of the submarines and deep sea probes to explore the area of deep seafood lies between Africa and the Arabian Peninsula.
The team speculates that the environment caused by these Terms also mimics the sharp conditions of the early country and believes that this is particularly true for this location in deep sea Where they speculate that life may have become the first time.
“Our current understanding is that life has been created on Earth in the deep sea, almost certainly in anoxic – without oxygen – conditions,” Purkis said.
Distribution of the Red Sea, the Illustration of the Old Testament, the end of the 19th century, by the gravity of Bequet, the Delagrad Edition, Paris. (Deagostini/Getty Images)
The study even suggested that these “death pools” could provide traces that help in search of alien organisms.
This unique ecosystem is one of the most extreme environments on the planet, it is stated in the study and that it is possible to resemble the conditions found in the distant “water worlds” beyond our solar system.
Because very Several organisms survive In the pools of the salty color, the layers of sediments remained unobstructed and preserved the archives of past climate change and geological events.
“Usually, these animals are bioturbed or dirty on the seabed, disturbing sediments that accumulate there,” according to Purkis. “This is not the case with the pools of salty salty color. Here, any sedimentary layers that place in bed pool of saline are left excellently intact.”
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He and his team hoping that the pristine conditions will allow them to better study the ancient The ocean conditions and help them reconstruct climate patterns and monitor the evolution of earthly ecosystems over millions of years.
Oceanographers have discovered similar formations in the Mediterranean Sea, Gulf of Mexico and Antarctic Ocean, But none at this depth.
