Abstract
There is no sea of the world ocean which compares to the Red Sea. It is the youngest oceanic body, not more, than 20 million years old; in the early Pliocene, it changed its connections through the uplifting of the Isthmus of Suez and from a satellite gulf of the Mediterranean it became a tongue of the Indian Ocean; moreover, through the time-lens of the geologists it is still ripping up from south to north. Being an exceptional sea which does not receive any permanent freshwater inflow and situated in an extremely arid area of the globe, the Red Sea is a metahaline sea. By the same token, the Baltic and Black Seas which receive excessive run-off are brackish seas. In the northern Red Sea, evaporation values reach more than 1 cm per day.
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Por, F.D. (1989). Northern Red Sea and the Gulfs. In: The Legacy of Tethys. Monographiae Biologicae, vol 63. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0937-3_4
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