Tel Kabri is located on a hill above the Ga’aton river valley surrounded with clay rich alluvium and upper Cretaceous marine sedimentary formations. The Ga’aton River flows from east to west and traverses a valley covered with tufa rich Pleistocene travertines directly at the foothills of the Tell. According to the geological map and several geological reports, north of the valley sedimentary successions of the Judea group are exposed: limestone of the Turonian Bina formation and dolomites of the Cenomanian Sakhnin Formation. To the south of the river valley, formations of the Senonian Mt. Scopus group are exposed: the chalks of the Ghareb and Menuha formations. Additional sources for the alluvial sediments could originate in the Cenomanian Deir Hanna formation composed of limestone, chalks, dolostones and chert nodules that is exposed along the river east of Kabri (Issar and Kafri 1972; Sivan and Gvirtzman 1999; Sneh 2004; Wachs et al. 2011; Arad and Ramon 2012). The soils covering the rock formations are generally clayey red terra rossa, brown rendzinas, or alluvial soils.
Soils of Kabri
Ga'aton alluvial
Geological map of Kabri
Ga'aton alluvial in thin section XPL X40
3200-c. 550 BCE
Early Bronze Age, Middle Bronze Age, Late Bronze Age, Iron Age
