Three sites of particular geological interest are the so-called Sawmill, where the sandstone crystallized into prism-like shapes; the dykes in Nahal Ardon; and the ammonites wall on the southern side of the makhtesh, a large stone wall studded with the fossils of the large snails known as ammonites.







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