Sharon Escarpment

Both the ridge and the escarpment are composed of alternating layers of kurkar (the local variety of sandstone) and loose palaeosol.

The separated slabs of kurkar slide downwards and crumble completely into fans of sand, swashed away by waves.

The catchment area of the escarpment is visibly eroded by runoff, but this erosion is negligible compared to rockslides and slumps.

[1] The escarpment is threatened by road building, sand quarrying, drainage, slope grading, and other uncontrolled tampering with the topography.

[2] Galil and Zviely suggest that over these 7,500 years the cliff retreated for about 730m, i.e., at the rate about 9.7 cm.