This story is at https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/it-looks-like-smoke-mysterious-chimneys-spewing-shimmering-liquid-discovered-at-the-bottom-of-the-dead-sea … there are towering salt chimneys formed by liquids spewing forth from the bottom of the dead sea – white and shimmering. The pillars reach 23 feet in height, around 7 metres tall. The Dead Sea is around ten times saltier than the oceans – yet is land locked. Instead, the water is derived from groundwater sources, the local aquifer. These penetrate the salt rich rock of the sea bed on which the Dead Sea is located – in a Rift valley. As the water flows through the rock salt if dissolved to create a concentrated brine. It is possible they contribute to sink holes in the region surrounding the sea.
At https://phys.org/news/2024-12-climate-patterns-cave-mineral-deposits.html … we have a study from a cave in China that links speleotherm changes, and precipitation levels, to dynastic upheavals through the last two thousand years of Chinese history. A drop in rainfall levels led to famine and social unrest, is the focus of the study. The speleotherm record appears to substantiate the idea.