Fig. 1: Location and temperatures of the Red Sea brine pools.
From: Discovery of the deep-sea NEOM Brine Pools in the Gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea
The Red Sea pools split into two convenient categories. [1] Pools in the deep (>1000 m) axial trough associated with the rift spreading axis (red dots). [2] Pools situated on the shallow coastal shelf (0–850 m depth) of the rift (blue dots). The NEOM Brine Pools, the first discovery in the Gulf of Aqaba (GofA), is neither located on the spreading axis, in the rift basin, nor on the continental shelf (green dot).
