Lisan Peninsula
The Lisan Peninsula is a large spit of land that now separates the North and the South basins of the Dead Sea. Its name is Arabic for "tongue". The peninsula, located entirely within Jordanian territory, separates the northern section of the Dead Sea from its shallow southern part. Wikipedia
The Lisan Peninsula is a large spit of land that now separates the North and the South basins of the Dead Sea. Its name is Arabic for "tongue".
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The prominent land feature that separates the northern and southern basins is the Lisan Peninsula. (Lisan means “tongue” in Arabic.) ...
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The peninsula of Al-Lisān (Arabic: “The Tongue”) divided the lake on its eastern side into two unequal basins: the northern basin encompassed about three- ...
The land surface of the Lisan Peninsula is slowly rising and being karstified, at a rise rate of a few mm per year, driven by salt flow. Widespread at-surface ...
Apr 26, 2021 · Some 24km south is Mazra'a, a small town on what was the Lisan Peninsula – now a belt of dry land across the lake. Exploring the peninsula ...
The Lisan Peninsula, Jordan, is a massive salt layer accumulated in the inner part of the Dead Sea's precursory lakes. This tongue-shaped, emergent land results ...
The study shows an episodic rising of the Lisan diapir. The presented results can be useful to update the knowledge of the displacement rates occurring in the ...
Jul 14, 2020 · AMMAN — The early inhabitants of Lisan Peninsula, on the southern corner of the Dead Sea, explored the potential of the spring waters for ...
Lake Lisan was a prehistoric lake that existed between 70,000 and 12,000 BP in the Jordan Rift Valley in the Near East. It is sometimes referred to as a ...