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Recent drilling in the Red Sea has shown that much of the basin is underlain by evaporites of a similar age to that of evaporites found in the Mediterranean Sea. These evaporites and their structural positions indicate that other brine areas are present - and, indeed, several others have been discovered.
D.A. Ross, R.B. Whitmarsh, S.A. Ali, J.E. Boudreaux, R. Coleman, R.L. Fleisher, R. Girdler, Frank T. Manheim, A. Matter, C. Nigrini, P. Stoffers, P.R. Supko