Lebanon/Lebanon Mountains/Israel/Galilee, Carmel Mountains/ Terra Rossa
Israel/Carmel Mountains, Israel/Galilee, Lebanon/Lebanon Mountains
Terra Rossa soil
Upper and lower Cretaceous limestone and chalks
Terra Rossa is a red-brown soil that developed on limestone or dolomite. In antiquity, red-brown Terra Rossa was extensively used for manufacture of serving, storage and cooking vessels.
The fabric is non-carbonatic, rich in iron and silty (~30%), porous, dark brown to red in PPL with some iron accumulations, and iron ooids (50-100µm). The silt contains mostly well-sorted angular quartz, poorly sorted angular Nari, chert, and feldspars. The a-plastic components consist of spherical Terra Rossa balls (up to 200µm) with silty quartz inclusions, poorly-sorted angular Nari (~5%, 100-400µm), some siltstone, and sub-angular well-sorted quartz (~50µm). It is also possible to see eroded basalt (Fig. 6A.1:1) and occasionally scattered alkaline feldspars (up to 50µm)
Terra Rossa is a red-brown soil that developed on limestone or dolomite. In antiquity, red-brown Terra Rossa was extensively used for manufacture of serving, storage and cooking vessels.
3200-c. 550 BCE
Early Bronze Age, Middle Bronze Age, Late Bronze Age, Iron Age
