Are the curative properties of 'Black Mud' from the Dead Sea due to presence of bitumen (asphalt) or other types of organic matter?

Environmental Geochemistry and Health

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 327-335

  Nissenbaum, Arie ^a   Rullkötter, Jürgen ^b   Yechieli, Yoseph ^c  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

Author keywords

'Black Mud'; Asphalt; Bitumen; Dead sea; Medicine; Organic matter; Sediments; Sulphides

Indexed keywords

BITUMEN; CLAY; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY; MUD; ORGANIC MATTER; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY;

DEAD SEA;

ALGAE;

EID: 0036889141     PISSN: 02694042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1020559717754     Document Type: Article

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