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- Kurkar (Arabic: كركار /Hebrew: כורכר) is the term used in Arabic and modern Hebrew for the rock type of which lithified sea sand dunes consist. The equivalent...
- islands situated near Caesarea, Israel. These islands are remnants of the Kurkar ridge, which became separated from the mainland due to sedimentation. One...
- a perennial stream towards its end. There is a man-made opening in the kurkar ridge that runs south-north along the coastal plain. In Arabic, the stream...
- calcareous aeolian (wind deposited) sandstones, locally referred to as "kurkar", intercalated with red-coloured fine grained paleosols, referred to as...
- integrating water features and greenery, utilizing local materials like kurkar in Caesarea and limestone in desert regions. Concurrently, Herod imported...
- Geologically, the hill of Old Jaffa is the continental north end of a kurkar ridge, historically further protected through fortifications and heightened...
- in warm oceans Charmant Som In Praise of Limestone – Poem by W. H. Auden Kurkar – Regional name for an aeolian quartz calcrete on the Levantine coast Limepit –...
- the 14th-11th centuries BCE. The coffins were cut into a foundation of Kurkar (sandstone) or hamrah (red sand) and lined with rough stones and oriented...
- least 44 shiploads of 400 tons each. Herod also had 12,000 m3 of local kurkar stone quarried to make rubble and 12,000 m3 of slaked lime mixed with the...
- that has been finished to specific sizes and shapes List of sandstones Kurkar – Regional name for an aeolian quartz calcrete on the Levantine coast Sedimentary...