Kurkar

A kurkar ridge near Zikhron Ya'akov, Israel
Exposed kurkar at Tel Dor beach
Kurkar 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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