The Carmel coastal plain is a narrow strip stretching between the Haifa Bay in the north and the southern tip of the Carmel ridge on the south. In the Iron Age its principal site was the port towns of Mevorakh, Dor and Shiqmona. Tel Nami of the Late Bronze Age also produced vessesl of the same petro-fabric.

The Carmel coast is characterized by calcareous aeolianite sandstone of the upper Pleistocene ridges and red loamy soils (hamra). Sites on the Carmel cost are surrounded by alluvial sediments that include clay, coastal sand and eroded limestone from the Carmel. In the vicinity of Dor, several geological cores reveal that beneath the coastal sand lie brown sandy clay units dated to the end of the Pleistocene and the beginning of the Holocene, which represent a short-lived episode of wetlands that contained brackish water. These ancient marshes preceded the Kabara marshes that prevailed until the modern era . In some cases, the clay units that are rich in silt include micro-fauna comparable with the ones found in the ceramics of this petrographic group.