Contents -- 1 Introduction -- Description in Genesis -- 2 General Geology -- Tectonic Pattern along the Dead Sea Graben -- General Stratigraphy and Physiography -- Affinities of the Sodom and Gomorrah Earthquakes -- Hydrogeology -- Water Stratification within the Lisan Lake-Dead Sea System -- 3 Climate Inferred from Geology and Archaeology -- Stratigraphy and Climate since Late Pleistocene -- Sediments of the South Basin -- Mount Sedom Cave Studies -- Radiocarbon Dates -- Stratigraphic Correlation between the South and North Basins -- Facies Distribution across Lisan Lake -- Chronology of Climatic Phases of Late Pleistocene -- Chronology of Climatic Phases of Holocene -- Phase I: Transition from Pleistocene -- Phase II: Climatic Optimum-Mostly Dry -- Phase III: Mostly Wet -- Phase IV: Mostly Dry -- False Indications of High Levels of the Dead Sea -- 4 Environmental Data for Specific Sites within the Dead Sea Region -- Numeira, Bab edh-Dhr'a, and the Uvda Valley -- Mount Sedom Caves -- Kinneret Plain -- Beth She'an Basin -- Jericho -- Bashan (South Syria) Volcanic Field -- Agricultural Soils and Fresh Waters in the Plain of Sodom -- Climatic Fluctuations since 20,000 B.P. with Analogies from Adjacent Regions -- Pleistocene -- Holocene -- 5 Coordination of Biblical and Scientific Information -- General -- The Arena -- Locations of Key Sites within the Dead Sea Basin -- General -- Sodom City and Mount Sedom -- Pillar of Salt-Lot's Wife -- City of Zoar -- Zoar-Key to Moab -- Zered River -- 6 Sodom and Gomorrah Event -- 7 Synopsis -- Climatic Fluctuations, Tectonic Disturbances, and Cultural Breaks since Late Pleistocene -- Correlation of Climates and Cultural Demography during Holocene -- Correlation of Early Biblical History, Physical Data, and Archaeology -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N.

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