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THE hot, highly saline waters in a limited area at the bottom of the Central Red Sea have attracted much interest since they were reported by Swallow and Crease1. More recently, Miller et al.2 have distinguished two deeps, separated by a distance of about 4 km (Fig. 1). The temperature of the bottom brines in Discovery Deep was approximately 44° C, and that of the bottom brines in Atlantis II Deep was 56° C, though in both cases there are layers of water at intermediate temperatures overlying the hottest bottom water, and below the normal 22° C Red Sea bottom water.
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Swallow, J. C., and Crease, J., Nature, 205, 165 (1965).
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PUGH, D. Origin of Hot Brines in the Red Sea. Nature 214, 1003–1004 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/2141003a0
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