page_title: Menuha Formation
hierarchical_section_title: Menuha Formation
caption_attribution_description: English: Menuha Formation at Wadi Zihor, Negev, southern Israel. Boundary of M-2 and M-3.
context_page_description: The Menuha Formation is the name given to an Upper Cretaceous chalk, marly chalk and conglomeratic chalk unit exposed throughout the Makhtesh Ramon region of southern Israel and parts of northern Israel.
context_section_description: The Menuha Formation is the name given to an Upper Cretaceous (Santonian-Early Campanian) chalk, marly chalk and conglomeratic chalk unit exposed throughout the Makhtesh Ramon region of southern Israel and parts of northern Israel (Avni, 1991).
caption: Menuha Formation exposed in Wadi Zihor.
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