As well , it's consist of limestone , sandstone , marlstone and siltstones , while the uncovered base of the mountain composed of a thin layer of marlstone topped with layer of Breccias rocks up to 17 m , followed by limestone and sandstone with thickness of 18 m , after that there is a 75 m thickness of sequential layers of grey crumbling sandstone with intermittent layers red marl and marl-alluvial , ends up with a cover of 2 m of | |
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Ibn Al-E'erabi said " Al-Mushaqqar : a great ancient city , has a fortress in the middle , on a Qarah called Attalah and on the top of it there is a well that makw a hole of Al-Qarah until it get to the ground , so it's absorbed by the ground | The mountain has caves , and some of them , such as " Al-Nashab cave " has moderate steady temperature throughout the year |
The project named " Land of Civilizations " , and the project includes preparing the main cave , lighting and leveling its ground.
14Naming [ ] Al-Qarah mountain named after Al-Qarah village which is belong to | Um Aljamajem Caves formation [ ] there is a popular belief that the caves in the mountain formed as a result of tides , based on a study was done at 1978 , however , at 2006 other study denied this |
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so there is cave for the annual collective wedding , and the other for tourists | 3- Third type formed because of earthquake Fissures and it is a cavernous system that takes a regular form of straight fissures , corridors like |
It's likely that the first inhabitants of Al-Qarah village which has the in it, is pre-Islamic tribe , they were skilled at archery so it's called " Al-Qarah " due to that , but the site landforms tells that the name is referred to "black, small, single, round and high mountain ".
30"The Jabal Qarah Caves of The Hofuf Area, Northeastern Saudi Arabia: A Geological Investigation" | Governor Al-Qarah mountain " Jabal Al-Qarah" also known as " Al-shaba'an mountain " located between At-Tuwaitheer village and in at the Eastern Province, |
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It also includes museum of history of Hajer " Al Ahsa name formerly " , stepped theater , new cafes and shops | " it a divine formation , and human didn't do anything about that " Al-Janbi said in his book |
Al-Mushaqqar also was mentioned in the fourth section of " Mou'jam Ma Esta'ajam " - it's a dictionary - for Abu Ubaid Al-Bakry.
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