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case, it is not clear which of those two fault systems caused damage to speleothems
analyzed from Denya Cave.
The sample age cluster at ca. 5ka from Denya Cave may correlate well to the seismic
event which caused structural damage to the EB I temple at Megiddo (Marco et al., 2006)
as well as to six damaged speleothems dated to that approximate time (4.9-5.7ka or older)
at Soreq cave in the Judean Hills (Kagan, 2002).
A seismic event at ca. 10ka is very clearly documented in Denya Cave speleoseismites
but is too old to be observed in Megiddo, which has no archeological evidence
from that period. That age might also be too young to be noted in paleoseismic trenches,
which were dug along the CF in the Kishon Valley, since most of the upper layers in that
area may have been disturbed by human ac<strong>tivity</strong> (Zilberman et al., 2006). This event was
not recorded at all in Soreq Cave as well. It might have been recorded in two
paleoseismic trenches in the area of Ein-Gev, along the northern segment of the DST,
which were dated to ca. 11ka (Amit et al., 2009).
The seismic event recorded in Denya Cave speleothems at ca. 21ka might be
supported by the age of the upper part of the shutter ridge dated by Zilberman et al.
(2006) to 24.5±2.5ka, which was followed by an incision of the stream channel and
assumed to be indicative of fault movement.
A seismic event at ca. 29ka, obtained from Denya Cave speleothems, might be
supported by the ages obtained for a layer in a paleoseismic trench along the Nesher fault,
which indicates a termination of a 50ka long subsidence, dated to 27±1ka (Zilberman et al.,
2006).
The well constrained age of ca. 38ka for a seismic event, which affected Denya Cave,
could probably be supported by three different paleoseismic findings. The first, an event
reported by Kagan et al. (2007) at ~39±1 ka, which has left evidence of brecciated marls at
four Lake Lisan sites along the Dead Sea basin as well as five well-constrained collapses in
different areas of the Soreq cave. Another one is a stratigraphic step in a paleoseismic
trench along the CF, which was dated to 32±4.4ka, and indicated that the faulting occurred
before ca. 35ka (Gluck, 2002). And the last is the dated layers to ca. 37ka in two
paleoseismic trenches in Ein-Gev (Amit et al., 2009).
The age cluster of ca. 58ka is based on pre-seismic event samples from Denya Cave,
which indicates that a seismic event occurred sometime after. This age might possibly be
supported by three collapses dated in Soreq cave speleo-seismites, and Lake Lisan
brecciated marls at three sites, which all yielded an age of 52±2.
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