Regional name for an aeolian quartz calcrete on the Levantine coast
A kurkar ridge near Zikhron Ya'akov, IsraelExposed kurkar at Tel Dor beachKurkar stone close up. The small grains of sand can be seen
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 term used in Lebanon is ramleh.[1][2]
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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...
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...
Both the ridge and the escarpment are composed of alternating layers of kurkar (the local variety of sandstone) and loose palaeosol. The escarpment gradually...
Geologically, the hill of Old Jaffa is the continental north end of a kurkar ridge, historically further protected through fortifications and heightened...
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...
calcareous aeolian (wind deposited) sandstones, locally referred to as "kurkar", intercalated with red-coloured fine grained paleosols, referred to as...
material. Coral sand Charmant Som In Praise of Limestone – Poem by W. H. Auden Kurkar – Regional name for an aeolian quartz calcrete on the Levantine coast Limepit –...
integrating water features and greenery, utilizing local materials like kurkar in Caesarea and limestone in desert regions. Concurrently, Herod imported...
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...
the general structure is constructed from local marine sandstone known as kurkar. The mosque forms a large sahn ("courtyard") surrounded by rounded arches...
fertile sandy sediments. Except for a porous calcareous sandstone called kurkar in Arabic, there are no other rocks in this region. In contrast, the West...
Strip—where it discharges into the Mediterranean Sea. The study identified three Kurkar ridges in the Gaza Strip running northeast–southwest: Skeikh Ejilin Ridge...
coastal dunes by the wind, and subsequently lithified. It is also known as kurkar in the Middle East, miliolite in India and Arabia, and grès dunaire in the...
Ashkelon. The central site was in Afridar, situated between two long and wide kurkar ridges. This area had unique ecological conditions, offering an abundance...
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...
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referred to it as Yaffa. Ancient Jaffa was built on a 40 metres (130 ft) high kurkar sandstone ridge, with a broad view of the coastline, giving it a strategic...
archaeological remains) known as Tel Yavne (Hebrew), which developed on a natural kurkar hill, the area seems to have been inhabited, possibly continuously, from...
Kfar Lam, a fort made up of rectangular enclosures built of thin slabs of kurkar stone with solid corner towers and semi-circular buttresses, can still be...
bridge is used today by pedestrians and cyclists. It is made of dressed kurkar stones, with three lancet arches. According to the Archaeological Survey...
53861°N 34.90167°E / 32.53861; 34.90167 Type Settlement History Material Kurkar (aeolian quartz sandstone with carbonate cement) Abandoned 1265 Periods...
Qantarah, is the most likely site of the fortress. Tell Heboua is upon a kurkar ridge, giving it the strategic advantage of high ground. Excavations by...
somewhat narrower than Lahat Promenade because of its location between the kurkar (lithified sea sand) bluffs and the beach. Lahat Promenade (Herbert Samuel...
at the site. As the Tel is closer to the Yarkon estuary and located on a Kurkar ridge, the Philistines choose to establish an inner harbor on the river...
the southern bank of the Yarkon River. The site is a natural hill made of Kurkar, a local type of sandstone. In 1930 ancient burials and tools were discovered...
employs a white limestone instead of using the more common stone of the area, kurkar, a yellow-brown calcareous sandstone. The walls of the mosque are perforated...
just east of the moshav. The reserve covers part of the second (middle) Kurkar ridge that runs on a north–south axis in this part of the Israeli coastal...
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