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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...
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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...
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calcareous aeolian (wind deposited) sandstones,
locally referred to as "
kurkar",
intercalated with red-coloured fine
grained paleosols,
referred to as...
- 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 –...
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integrating water features and greenery,
utilizing local materials like
kurkar in
Caesarea and
limestone in
desert regions. Concurrently,
Herod imported...
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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...
- Geologically, the hill of Old
Jaffa is the
continental north end of a
kurkar ridge,
historically further protected through fortifications and heightened...
- Both the
ridge and the
escarpment are
composed of
alternating layers of
kurkar (the
local variety of sandstone) and
loose palaeosol. The
escarpment gradually...
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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...
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general structure is
constructed from
local marine sandstone known as
kurkar. The
mosque forms a
large sahn ("courtyard")
surrounded by
rounded arches...
