Timeline for Was Judea as desertified 2000 years ago as it is now?
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| Dec 30, 2016 at 3:29 | comment | added | Gordon Stanger | If I remember rightly, the 'time of concentration' - the time between storm in the highlands and flood peak reaching the Dead Sea, is in the order of 10 hours. The hydraulic gradient is very steep, so the flood peak will come and go at Masada in less than an hour. | |
| Dec 28, 2016 at 20:55 | comment | added | Gimelist | @jamesqf indeed. This is bare exposed limestone country with very steep slopes all around, and hardly any soil. Another reason to trap flood waters. | |
| Dec 28, 2016 at 20:42 | comment | added | jamesqf | Also in typical desert areas (though I don't know about the Masada area specifically) there is a lot of bare rock, so when it rains the water tends to run off quickly, rather than be absorbed into the soil. | |
| Dec 28, 2016 at 7:08 | history | answered | Gimelist | CC BY-SA 3.0 |