Israel unveils world’s longest salt cave

Israel unveils world’s longest salt cave

1. A research team from Israel has claimed that Malham Cave in the Negev Desert, Israel is the longest salt cave in the world. The cave is 10 kilometres long.
2. The Malham Cave extends through Mount Sodom, Israel’s largest mountain to the southwest corner of the adjacent Dead Sea. The cave’s main opening is located close to a salt pillar popularly called “Lot’s wife.
3. Previously, Cave of the Three Nudes, (6.85 km) long salt cave in Iran’s Qeshm Island was considered the world’s longest salt cave.
4. Salt caves are rare geological features. They tend to exist in highly arid regions. Salt cave systems by solution of salt by rain water. The main prerequisite of the formation of salt caves are salt outcrops at the surface in arid climate regions.