Fast Question in need of an answer!

[NeonKnight]

Theoretically, there is an almost (I say Almost because of certain real issues) of a real world equivalent:

The Dead Sea.

This is not so much a true sea, but rather a a high saline content lake that sits 1,378 feet below sea level. As a result, it could have a river flowing from the real Sea into it, but eventually without some mechanism for the inflow to leave, it would eventually fill.

In a fantasy world this could be accomplished by either extra diemensional rifts, portals, undergound sea etc.

[waldronate]

Theoretically, there is an almost (I say Almost because of certain real issues) of a real world equivalent:

The Dead Sea.

This is not so much a true sea, but rather a a high saline content lake that sits 1,378 feet below sea level. As a result, it could have a river flowing from the real Sea into it, but eventually without some mechanism for the inflow to leave, it would eventually fill.

There have been talks of running canals from the Mediterranean and/or Red Sea to the Dead Sea for years to replenish the lake level. The water would be pumped up over the divide and allowed to flow down to the lake in order to generate power (it'd be up 400 feet, down 1800 feet). The inflow would be adjusted to stabilize the lake at 1930s levels. The lake is currently dropping on the order of 3 feet per year due to diversion of the Jordan river and evaporation in the basin.

The Afar Basin in Africa will become a new ocean branch very soon in geologic time. There are little saltwater streams that trickle into the basin from the ocean, but they are under the terrain for the most part and don't come near to approaching the evaporation level in the area. The basin is in an active rift zone, though, and the barriers will be split soon enough.

[RobA]

I wonder if they could just siphon it?

-Rob A>

[Badger]

That would take SOOOO many garden hoses.....