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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]None of this has anything to do with Moses or the Bible, OP.

I'm a research scientist. Brine pools have been discovered elsewhere. The planet is replete with bizarre life forms, unusual geology, etc. None of this is surprising.

Yes, ancient religious texts sometimes describe certain situations that may have related to natural events that actually happened.

But here, the existence of these water formations has nothing to do with a physical parting of the waters in the same area.

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These are rare, deep sea brine pools.

Rare deep-sea brine pools discovered in Red Sea
https://news.miami.edu/rosenstiel/stories/2022/07/rare-deep-sea-brine-pools-discovered-in-red-sea.html

MIAMI—Researchers at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science recently discovered rare deep-sea brine pools in the Gulf of Aqaba, a northern extension to the Red Sea. These salty underwater lakes hold secrets into the way oceans on Earth formed millions of years ago, and offer clues to life on other planets.

In partnership with OceanX, Sam Purkis, professor and chair of the UM Department of Marine Geosciences and team made their discovery more than [i]one mile beneath the sea surface (1,770 meters) using a remotely operated underwater vehicle[/i] (ROV) on the OceanXplorer, OceanX’s highly equipped marine research vessel capable of exploring the most unreachable places on Earth.

The research, published in Nature Communications, is the first discovery of brine pools in the Gulf of Aqaba.

“We were very lucky,” said Purkis. “The discovery came in the last five minutes of the ten-hour ROV dive that we could dedicate to this project.”

https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-022-00482-x

“We further conduct sediment coring and direct sampling of the brine to confirm the sedimentary and environmental characteristics of these pools. We find that the main pool preserves a stratigraphy which spans at least 1200 years and contains a combination of turbidites, likely resulting from flashfloods and local seismicity, and tsunamigenic terrestrial sediment. The NEOM Brine Pools, as we name them, extend the known geographical range of Red Sea brine pools, and represent a unique preservational environment for the sedimentary signals of regional climatic and tectonic events.“
stra·tig·ra·phy
noun
the branch of geology concerned with the order and relative position of strata and their relationship to the geological time scale.
the analysis of the order and position of layers of archaeological remains.
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