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The chapters in this book record the results and ideas of many authors who studied different aspects of the Red Sea, its hot brines, and its metalliferous deposits. Separate chapters deal with regional structure and stratigraphy, local topography and rocks, measurements of geomagnetism and gravity, temperatures of water and sediments, movement of the water, general chemistry of water and sediments, distribution and significance of both stable and radioactive isotopes, flora and fauna of overlying water and bottom sediments, facies of sediments and their metal contents, comparison with ancient metalliferous strata, and finally economic and legal factors that will have to be considered by possible exploiters of the deposit. This last chapter in the book summarizes the previous ones and attempts to draw many related observations into a somewhat more condensed description of the hot brines and metal deposits.
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Emery, K.O., Hunt, J.M., Hays, E.E. (1969). Summary of Hot Brines and Heavy Metal Deposits in the Red Sea. In: Degens, E.T., Ross, D.A. (eds) Hot Brines and Recent Heavy Metal Deposits in the Red Sea. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-28603-6_50
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