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Science 26 January 1973:
Vol. 179. no. 4071, pp. 377 - 380
DOI: 10.1126/science.179.4071.377
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Red Sea Drillings

David A. Ross 1, Robert B. Whitmarsh 2, Syed A. Ali 3, Joseph E. Boudreaux 4, Robert Coleman 5, Robert L. Fleisher 6, Ronald Girdler 7, Frank Manheim 8, Albert Matter 9, Catherine Nigrini 10, Peter Stoffers 1, and Peter R. Supko 11

1 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543
2 National Institute of Oceanography, Wormley, Godalming, Surrey, United Kingdom
3 Marine Sciences Research Center, State University of New York, Stony Brook 11790
4 Texaco, Inc., New Orleans, Louisiana 70112
5 U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California 94025
6 Department of Geological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles 90007
7 Department of Geophysics, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom
8 U.S. Geological Survey, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543
9 Geologisches Institut, Universität Bern, Bern, Switzerland
10 17 Highland Avenue, Lexington, Massachusetts 02173
11 Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California 92037

Recent drilling in the Red Sea has shown that much of the basin is underlain by evaporites of a similar age to that of evaporites found in the Mediterranean Sea. These evaporites and their structural positions indicate that other brine areas are present—and, indeed, several others have been discovered.


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