World’s longest salt cave uncovered in Israel

Friday, March 29, 2019

As per an international team of researchers, the world’s longest salt cave has been discovered in Israel and it continues to grow.

The 6.2 miles long Malham Cave in Mount Sedom also known as the mount Sodom has surpassed Iran’s Cave of the Three Nudes which is almost 4.1 miles in length.
The Malham Cave was succesfully mapped by Hebrew University’s Cave Research Center, the Israel Cave Explorers Club and Bulgaria’s Sofia Speleo Club along with 80 cavers from nine countries.

According to the scientists , located on the southwestern tip of the Dead Sea, Mount Sedom is made completely of Salt beneath a layer of cap rock and the cave is living.
Prof. Amos Frumkin CRC director at Hebrew University’s Institute of Earth Sciences said that the Malham Salt Cave is a river cave,water from a surface stream flowed underground and dissolved the salt which created caves. This process is going on when there is strong rain over Mount Sedom about once a year and so it is deemed as alive and still growing.

In 1980s the Malham Cave was first discovered by the CRC and is believed to be 3.5 miles long. In 2018 when the experts came they used the sophisticated laser technology to confirm its 6.2 mile length.

The electronic map of the cave will be created after researchers process the final data from their surveys.The scientists said that there are more than 100 different salt caves within Mount Sedom.

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